For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. — 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
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
I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.… — 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
I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if… — 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 can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
