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I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

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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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Artists are like everybody else.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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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 can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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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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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 was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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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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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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