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I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Conceptual Artist
Film Director
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Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Restaurateur
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.
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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'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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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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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 did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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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As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.
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Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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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 like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.
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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 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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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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