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Damien Hirst - From the Activity category:
Anything you can do with your hands and feet. Great. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Aging category:
I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Architecture category:
But then architects don't build their own houses. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Art category:
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Artists category:
Artists are like everybody else. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Beginning category:
There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Belief category:
It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it – but I have to. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Choices category:
Anything to not make a decision. Getting other people to make decisions is a good way to not make decisions. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Collage category:
I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Collectors category:
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Colour category:
I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Commerce category:
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Communication category:
I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Contemporary Art category:
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Copying category:
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Creativity category:
Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Critics category:
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. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Drunkenness category:
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Effort category:
What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Ego category:
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. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Exhibitions category:
There's a lot of things that people don't like. I think it'd be difficult for anyone to go in and say they didn't like the whole thing, because it's enjoyable, it's like a funfair, I hope. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Expectation category:
I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Fame category:
To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Finishing category:
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. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Goals category:
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Greatness category:
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Humour category:
Yeah, maybe a morbid sense of humour, I wouldn't say it was sick, but maybe other people would. I like bad jokes. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Ideas category:
The idea is more important than the object. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Immortality category:
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Immortality category:
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... (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Importance category:
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Influence category:
I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Invention category:
I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Language category:
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Life category:
The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Love category:
It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Love category:
I love art. It is uplifting. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Mistakes category:
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. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Money category:
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. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Music category:
I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Pets category:
I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Photography category:
But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Planning category:
I don't really have a career plan. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Possessions category:
I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Possibilities category:
The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Procrastination category:
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. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Religion category:
I was brought up a Catholic, but I don't believe in God. I think I'm an atheist. Hardcore atheist. I'm trying to be a hardcore atheist, and then I keep making work like this. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Rules category:
I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. I've found out there aren't any. I wanted to be stopped but no one will stop me. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Sculpture category:
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Selling category:
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Senses category:
And I think, you know, I like it, so I can't understand it, I think if you're gonna have this stuff going in your ears, you might as well have some stuff going in your eyes. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Senses category:
Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Standards category:
But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Subject category:
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Subject category:
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. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Thinking category:
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)
Damien Hirst - From the Titles category:
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Travel category:
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Wonder category:
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. (Damien Hirst)
Damien Hirst - From the Work category:
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work. (Damien Hirst)
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