Damien Hirst Quotes

• But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer’s always staring me in the face. I’m already doing it.

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• I always feel like the art’s there and I just see it, so it’s not really a lot of work.

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• I always ignore money.

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• I made one untitled piece.

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• I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

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• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

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• In an artwork you’re always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

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• It’d be nice to make lots of money but it’s quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

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• It’s good to have a title that’s not just one word. If you’re gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

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• It’s such a crass idea – you’re either in love or out of love.

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• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that’s posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can’t take it any more is different.

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• My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

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• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple.

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• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

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• There’s no possible way you can get what you want.

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

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Damien Hirst (57)

Birth:	7th June, 1965
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist

About

Damien Steven Hirst is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists, who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

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Births

• 1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky
• 1939 - Nicole Hollander
• 1954 - Randy Cross
• 1951 - Evan Welling Thomas III
• 1873 - Walter de la Mare

Deaths

• 2004 - Thom Gunn
• 2009 - Bea Arthur
• 1840 - Simeon Poisson
• 1988 - Valerie Solanas
• 1990 - Dexter Gordon