Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable… — 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
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. — 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
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. — 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 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 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
