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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
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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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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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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I always ignore money.
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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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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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 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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Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
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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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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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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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 suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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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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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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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 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 hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
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