Damien Hirst quotes - page 2

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)
I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this. View quote
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. View quote
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. View quote
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not. View quote
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful. View quote
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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. View quote
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't really have a career plan. View quote
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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)
I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. View quote
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But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene. View quote
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There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning. View quote
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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. View quote
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing. View quote
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst. View quote
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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. View quote
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging. View quote
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff. View quote
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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. (Damien Hirst)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another. View quote
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. View quote
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