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72 quotes by Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst's voice Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Recorded May 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs Problems playing this file? See media help. Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known...
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is... →

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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if... →

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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so... →

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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... →

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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... →

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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of... →

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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

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I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come... →

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