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I don't really have a career plan.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
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Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I always ignore money.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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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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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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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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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.
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You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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