Damien Hirst Quotes - Page 4

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  Damien Hirst

  Names, Chairs, Ready

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

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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.

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• But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

  Damien Hirst

  Judgement, Standards, Obscene

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• You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

  Damien Hirst

  Copying, Able, Copies

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• I always ignore money.

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• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Genius, Might

  "Damien Hirst: 'Anyone can be Rembrandt'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, America, Pet

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• The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

  Damien Hirst

  Nuts, Infinite, Possibility

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• I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

  Damien Hirst

  Butterfly, Space, Guy

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• 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.

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• 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

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• I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.

  Damien Hirst

  Fashion, Integrity, Ego

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

  Damien Hirst

  Greatness, Painting, Nervous

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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

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• 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

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Kids, Watches

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

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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

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Sex, Medicine

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• But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.

  Damien Hirst

  Fall, Glasses, Sheep

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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• I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.

  Damien Hirst

  Music, Growing Up, Growing

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• But then architects don't build their own houses.

  Damien Hirst

  House, Architecture, Architect

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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.

  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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• Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

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  Art, Touching, Skins

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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.

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  Real, British Monarchy, Kind

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