Damien Hirst Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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

• 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

• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  Damien Hirst

  Cost, Painting, Increase

• 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 always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

  Damien Hirst

  Wall, Pounds, Students

• 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.

• 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.

• You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

  Damien Hirst

  Greatness, Painting, Nervous

• 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

  Procrastination, Guy, Way

• The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

  Damien Hirst

  Painting, Spots

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

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