Damien Hirst Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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.

  Damien Hirst

  Inspirational, Change, Art

• I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Believe, Medicine

• Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Worry, Sculpture

• I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

  Damien Hirst

  Uplifting, Art, Believe

• Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Struggle, Inspiration

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

• 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

• Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Surroundings, Response

• 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

• 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

• In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Drinking, Going Out

• 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

  Art, Mean, Thinking

• 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

  Art, Writing, Thinking

• I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Waiting, Get Away

  "Why it's OK not to like modern art". The Times, May 08, 2003.

• 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

• 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.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, People, Waiting

  "Why it's OK not to like modern art". The Times, May 08, 2003.

• For me, art is always a kind of theater.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Kind, Theater

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

• As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, Get Over

• 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

  Art, Museums, Names

  "What else can you spend your money on?" by Peter Aspden, www.ft.com. May 26, 2007.

• Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Museums, People

• 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

• I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Names, World

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

• 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.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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

• I love art. It is uplifting.

  Damien Hirst

  Love, Uplifting, Art

• For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Mean, Looks

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

• 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.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Strong, Catholic

  "Damien Hirst: 'I felt the power of art from a very young age'". Interview with Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2013.

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