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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.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Damien Steven Hirst
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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 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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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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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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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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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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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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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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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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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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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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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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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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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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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