British - Artist | June 7, 1965 -
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
Damien Hirst
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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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.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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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.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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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.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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