List of Damien Hirst Quotes

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Damien Hirst
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
Cost Painting Increase
I liked the beatles a lot when i was growing up.
Music Growing Up Growing
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.
Song Kids Watches
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.
Art Strong Catholic
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.
Fall Glasses Sheep
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
Greatness Painting Nervous
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.
Photography Taken Light
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.
Looks Doing Me Answers
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.
Art Drinking Going Out
I quite like it to be risky. i'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. i've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.
Art Names World
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but i think in england, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
Art Mean Thinking
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.
Goal Way Life Is
  • Born: June 7, 1965
  • Occupation: Artist
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