I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would. Damien Hirst More Quotes by Damien Hirst More Quotes From Damien Hirst I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life. Damien Hirst suicideperfectthinking It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to. Damien Hirst ridiculousbeliefbelieve So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. Damien Hirst marijuanasimplesuicide What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect. Damien Hirst maximumminimumeffort Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't. Damien Hirst tryingchildrenthinking I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints. Damien Hirst robotskindthinking I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out. Damien Hirst carideasthinking But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live. Damien Hirst just-liveanswersthinking The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel. Damien Hirst spotspainting I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful. Damien Hirst painfulimportantthinking Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. Damien Hirst commercebackwardsworld 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 day, people are more important than paintings. Damien Hirst peopleartthinking I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well. Damien Hirst confusionlyingart I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet. Damien Hirst art-iswantart Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. Damien Hirst measure-of-successtermgoal For me, art is always a kind of theater. Damien Hirst theaterkindart I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it. Damien Hirst our-relationshipfeelsthinking The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. Damien Hirst answersthinking 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. Damien Hirst procrastinationguyway It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money. Damien Hirst costnicemoney
