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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.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Bristol
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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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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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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.
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I always ignore money.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying 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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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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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 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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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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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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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 liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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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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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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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