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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
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Conceptual Artist
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Installation Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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 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 don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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 think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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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I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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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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As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.
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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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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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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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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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