It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to. Damien Hirst More Quotes by Damien Hirst More Quotes From Damien Hirst 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 never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight. Damien Hirst meanlooksart I love art. It is uplifting. Damien Hirst upliftingloveart If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time. Damien Hirst buildingbuyingchoices 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 it down. Damien Hirst writingartthinking Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality. Damien Hirst namesmuseumsart Never let money get in the way of an idea Damien Hirst wayideas When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet. Damien Hirst couplefeettwo 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 limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. Damien Hirst limitlesshonestthinking When we are no longer children, we are already dead. Damien Hirst children As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. Damien Hirst buyingpeopleart Artists are like everybody else. Damien Hirst artist But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence. Damien Hirst frightenedinfluencepeople There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning. Damien Hirst I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things. Damien Hirst waitingpeopleart I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff. Damien Hirst termmediastuff Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. Damien Hirst mindartthinking But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it. Damien Hirst doing-meanswerslooks You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. Damien Hirst nervouspaintinggreatness I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not. Damien Hirst usedforeverbelieve I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. Damien Hirst ashtraysrealthinking
