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

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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 like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
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You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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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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Artists are like everybody else.
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