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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
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Restaurateur
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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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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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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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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Artists are like everybody else.
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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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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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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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I always ignore money.
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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 don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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