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Painting Quotes by Damien Hirst
- I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
- You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
- I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the…
- The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
- A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
- Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
- I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have…
- When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the…
- I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
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