Damien Hirst Quotes

• I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Stupid, Flower

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

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

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  Art, Surroundings, Response

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• It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

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  Done, Easy

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• The idea is more important than the object.

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  Arte, Ideas, Importante

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• You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

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  Steps, Sometimes, Boundaries

  2002 Quoted on www.bbc.co.uk, 20 Sep.

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

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  Art, Believe, Medicine

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• Siempre he sido consciente de que hay que conseguir que la gente escuche antes de hacerles cambiar de opinión. El gran miedo de cualquier artista es ser ignorado, así que si consigues que se debata, estupendo.

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  Inspirational, Change, Art

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• What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

  Damien Hirst

  Effort, Minimum, Maximum

  1995 In the Idler, 10 Jul.

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• I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

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  Artist, Thinking, Invention

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• 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.

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  Sharks, Liquid, Imagine

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• I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

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  Communication, Want, Sometimes

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• The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.

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  Thinking, Answers

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• I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

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  Freedom, Boundaries, Found

  "You can puff all you like Damien, but the wind's gone out of Britart" by Nicola Kuhn, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 1999.

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

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  Art, Kind, Theater

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

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• When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

  Damien Hirst

  Niños

  "Damien Hirst's former business manager puts art collection up for sale" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2018.

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• 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.

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  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.

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• 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.

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  Hate, Writing, Artist

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• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  Damien Hirst

  Drunk, Sometimes

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• You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

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  Arte, Pensamiento, Orden

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

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• I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

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  Color, Giving, Buzz

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• Solía creer que iba a vivir para siempre. Y de repente te das cuenta de que no es así.

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  Believe, Forever, Used

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

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

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  Uplifting, Art, Believe

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

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  Art, Worry, Sculpture

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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.

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  School, Inspire, Horror

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

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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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