Damien Hirst Quotes

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
Damien Hirst

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
Damien Hirst

Good, Art, Forward

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

Religion, God, Big

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
Damien Hirst

Afraid, Beginning, Painting

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

Money, Important, Everyone

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

Live, Become, Used

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

Life, Death, Society

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

Down, Name, Ready

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
Damien Hirst

Great, Future, Forward

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

Guess, Anyway, Images

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst

Art, Life, Death

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

Time, Money, Nice

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

Good, Try, Word

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
Damien Hirst

Love, Idea, Either

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

Work, Good, Art

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

After, Themselves, Mum

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
Damien Hirst

Freedom, Genius, Anyone

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Damien Hirst

Worry, Makes, While

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
Damien Hirst

Work, Truly, Anywhere

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Damien Hirst

Genius, Might, Painter

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
Damien Hirst

Death, Try, Big

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
Damien Hirst

Art, Death, Between

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
Damien Hirst

Thought, Idea, Artist

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
Damien Hirst

Life, Work, Future

There's no possible way you can get what you want.
Damien Hirst

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: June 7, 1965

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