Damien Hirst Quotes - Page 2

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• Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

  Damien Hirst

  School, Inspire, Horror

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, People, Buying

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• It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Imagination, Levels

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• Never let money get in the way of an idea

  Damien Hirst

  Ideas, Way

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• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Life And Death, Perfect

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• I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Our Relationship, Feels

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  Damien Hirst

  Suicide, Thinking, Perfect

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• 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

  Art, Integrity, Thinking

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking About You, Want, Knows

  Damien Hirst, Gordon Burn (2002). “On the Way to Work”, Universe Pub

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Light, Yesterday, Tools

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Ideas, Car

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Robots, Kind

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Important, Painful

  "Damien Hirst: 'Art is childish and childlike'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

  Damien Hirst

  Goal, Term, Measure Of Success

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

  Damien Hirst

  School, Abstract Painting, Stuff

  "Damien Hirst interview for The Blue Paintings at the Wallace Collection". Interview with John Hoyland, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 13, 2009.

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• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  Damien Hirst

  Suicide, Marijuana, Simple

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Children, Thinking, Trying

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• I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Lying, Confusion

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Feels

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• It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

  Damien Hirst

  Believe, Ridiculous, Belief

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• I love art. It is uplifting.

  Damien Hirst

  Love, Uplifting, Art

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• 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

  Art, Want, Art Is

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• But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Answers, Just Live

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, People

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• If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

  Damien Hirst

  Choices, Buying, Building

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