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I like the confusion you get between science and religion ... that's where belief lies and art as well.
— Damien Hirst
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
— Damien Hirst
I'm a hypocrite and a slut and I'll change my mind tomorrow.
— 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.
— Damien Hirst
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
— Damien Hirst
I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.
— Damien Hirst
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
— Damien Hirst
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
— Damien Hirst
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
— Damien Hirst
I don't really have a career plan.
— Damien Hirst
I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
— Damien Hirst
The idea is more important than the object.
— Damien Hirst
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
— Damien Hirst
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
— Robert Adams
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
— David Morrissey
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
— Damien Hirst
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
— Damien Hirst
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
— Damien Hirst
I don't see what else you can spend your money on ... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.
— Damien Hirst
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
— Damien Hirst
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.
— Damien Hirst
I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
— Damien Hirst
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
— Damien Hirst
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
— Damien Hirst
I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
— Damien Hirst
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
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
— David Bailey
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.
— Damien Hirst
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
— Damien Hirst
What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.
— Damien Hirst
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
— Damien Hirst
There's no possible way you can get what you want.
— Damien Hirst
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
— Damien Hirst
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
— Dave Hickey
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.
— Damien Hirst
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
— Damien Hirst
I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
— Damien Hirst
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
— Damien Hirst
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
— Damien Hirst
Artists are like everybody else.
— Damien Hirst
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
— Damien Hirst
Never let money get in the way of an idea
— Damien Hirst
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.
— Damien Hirst
I'd like to work with Damien Hirst.
— Steve Madden
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
— Damien Hirst
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
— Damien Hirst
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
— Damien Hirst
Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ...
— Damien Hirst
But then architects don't build their own houses.
— Damien Hirst
I love art. It is uplifting.
— Damien Hirst
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
— Damien Hirst
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
— Damien Hirst
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
— Damien Hirst
I made one untitled piece.
— Damien Hirst
You need a big ego to be an artist.
— Damien Hirst
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.
— Damien Hirst
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.
— Damien Hirst
I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.
— Cat Deeley
I always ignore money.
— Damien Hirst