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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Restaurateur
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
Beatles
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
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I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
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I have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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