So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. Damien Hirst More Quotes by Damien Hirst More Quotes From Damien Hirst But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep. Damien Hirst glasses sheep fall As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging. Damien Hirst hug mother father I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up. Damien Hirst growing growing-up music You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. Damien Hirst copying copies able In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. Damien Hirst life-and-death perfect art I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done. Damien Hirst ego fashion integrity I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point. Damien Hirst wall students pounds I always ignore money. Damien Hirst I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage. Damien Hirst sculpture titles floating But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction. Damien Hirst light photography taken But then architects don't build their own houses. Damien Hirst architect architecture house I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. Damien Hirst get-away waiting art Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. Damien Hirst immortal immortality term As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear Damien Hirst get-over art thinking 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 after them all in the space. Damien Hirst butterfly guy space 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 formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me. Damien Hirst abstract-painting stuff school I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction. Damien Hirst catholic strong art I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another. Damien Hirst song watches kids I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art. Damien Hirst mean art thinking In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking. Damien Hirst going-out drinking art
