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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
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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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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 can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say f off. But after a while you can get away with things.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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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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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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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I don't really have a career plan.
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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 have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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