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Damien Hirst
7 quotes
“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 (born 1965) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spalding, Julian. "Why it's OK not to like modern art", The Times, 8 May 2003.
“I was with this guy who was a plasterer, and at lunchtime he was eating a stuffed heart . . . I was thinking, "I'm not like these guys. I'm an artist." And I saw a bee come over to some flowers and get all the pollen out. I was looking and thinking, "How does it do that?" And then the guy who was eating the stuffed heart said, "How does that bee do that?”
Damien Hirst (born 1965) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beckett, Andy. "Arts: A Strange Case", The Independent, 12 November 1995
“I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.”
Damien Hirst (born 1965) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kuhn, Nicola, "You can puff all you like Damien, but the wind's gone out of Britart", The Guardian, 16 March 1999.
“The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.”
Damien Hirst (born 1965) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Way to Work, p. 82, Faber and Faber, 2001.
“I started taking cocaine and drink ... I turned into a babbling fucking wreck.”
Damien Hirst (born 1965) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Way to Work, Faber and Faber, 2001.
“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. There's boring conceptual art and there's boring traditional art. Great art is if you can't stop thinking about it, then it becomes a memory.”
Damien Hirst (born 1965) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Elizabeth Day Damien Hirst: 'Art is childish and childlike, The Guardian, 26 September 2010
“It’s not a coincidence that governments use art on coins and notes. They do this to help us believe in money. Without art, it’s hard for us to believe in anything.”
Damien Hirst (born 1965) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shaw, Anny, NFT breakthrough: Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin creates 99% energy efficient blockchain—and Damien Hirst is its first artist, The Art Newspaper, 30 March 2021