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But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene. — Damien Hirst

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

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. — 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 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. — Damien Hirst

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

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful. — Damien Hirst

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

You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare. — Damien Hirst

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

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. — 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

I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff. — Damien Hirst

For me, art is always a kind of theater. — Damien Hirst

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

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

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. — 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

It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to. — Damien Hirst

I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up. — Damien Hirst

The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in. — Damien Hirst

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel. — Damien Hirst

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life. — Damien Hirst

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings. — Damien Hirst

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

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

I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street. — Damien Hirst

Artists are like everybody else. — Damien Hirst

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear — 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

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion. — 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

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

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

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging. — Damien Hirst

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. — 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

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. — Damien Hirst

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head. — 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

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

You need a big ego to be an artist. — Damien Hirst

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love. — 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 gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. — Damien Hirst

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