Art Quote by Damien Hirst Download Open image “It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.” — Damien Hirst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Chainsaw Creativity Imagination Levels Twisted
Well, chainsaw art is when you pick up a log and carve a mermaid or a dolphin or dogs or bears or whatever. I… — Cherie Currie Copy Share Image
If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks. — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art. — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme. — Phil Lord Copy Share Image
I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. — Donald Judd 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image