Damien Hirst Quotes

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

Simple, Bad, Perfect

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

Life, Goal, Actually

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
Damien Hirst

Change, Great, Fear

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
Damien Hirst

Drunk, Sometimes

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

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
Damien Hirst

Work, Time, Done

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

Value, Painting, Sell

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Damien Hirst

Change, History, Future

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

Saying, Why, Influence

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
Damien Hirst

Money, Ignore, Careful

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.
Damien Hirst

Live, Different, Country

Artists are like everybody else.
Damien Hirst

Else, Everybody, Artists

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

Mother, Father, Hugging

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

Success, Best, Goal

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
Damien Hirst

Used, Ideas, Run

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
Damien Hirst

Live, Thinking, Stop

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

Live, Question, Face

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

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
Damien Hirst

Good, Great, Art

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
Damien Hirst

Person, Point, Student

I always ignore money.
Damien Hirst

I made one untitled piece.
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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

Today, Light, Big

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.
Damien Hirst

Best, Thought, Remember

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: June 7, 1965

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