Author: Damien Hirst

Quotes

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

- Damien Hirst

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

- Damien Hirst

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

- Damien Hirst

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

- Damien Hirst

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 you get debate, that's great.

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 you get debate, that's great.

- Damien Hirst

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

- Damien Hirst

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

- Damien Hirst

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.

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

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.

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.

- Damien Hirst

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