Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language -… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
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… — Damien Hirst Copy Share
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… — Damien Hirst Copy Share
Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always… — Damien Hirst Copy Share
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and… — Damien Hirst Copy Share
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… — Damien Hirst Copy Share
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place. — Damien Hirst Copy Share
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt. — Damien Hirst Copy Share
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… — Damien Hirst Copy Share
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time. — Damien Hirst Copy Share
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. — Damien Hirst Copy Share
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.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. — Damien Hirst Copy Share
