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 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
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
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
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like 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
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
