I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this. — 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
When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and… — 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 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
