Art Quote by Damien Hirst Download Open image “The idea is more important than the object.” — Damien Hirst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Ideas Important Inspirational Jazz and life Objects
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life. — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference. — Michael Abrash Copy Share Image
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. — Adrian Forty Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually… — Flannery O'Connor 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