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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
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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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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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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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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 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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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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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