Damien Hirst Quotes

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

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Surroundings, Response

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• The idea is more important than the object.

  Damien Hirst

  Arte, Ideas, Importante

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• 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.

  Damien Hirst

  Beautiful, Stupid, Flower

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

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Done, Easy

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

  Damien Hirst

  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.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Believe, Medicine

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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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• 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.

  Damien Hirst

  Inspirational, Change, Art

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

  Damien Hirst

  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.

  Damien Hirst

  Sharks, Liquid, Imagine

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

  Damien Hirst

  Drunk, Sometimes

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

  Damien Hirst

  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.

  Damien Hirst

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

  Damien Hirst

  Communication, Want, Sometimes

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

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Kind, Theater

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

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• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  Damien Hirst

  Believe, Forever, Used

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

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  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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• I don't really have a career plan.

  Damien Hirst

  Careers, Planning, Plans

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  Hate, Writing, Artist

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  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.

  Damien Hirst

  Color, Giving, Buzz

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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.

  Damien Hirst

  School, Inspire, Horror

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

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