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Paintings Quotes by Damien Hirst
- 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.
- 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…
- For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was…
- The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
- There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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- It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. — Albert Camus
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