Quotes by Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst

A lot of people thought I wasn’t doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I’ve always managed to get work actually done.

Done

Going Out

People

Art comes from everywhere. It’s your response to your surroundings.

Art

Response

Surroundings

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.

Art

Thinking

Writing

Artists are like everybody else.

Artist

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

Art

Get Over

Thinking

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Goal

Measure Of Success

Term

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.

Fall

Glasses

Sheep

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.

Light

Photography

Taken

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

Judgement

Obscene

Standards

But then architects don’t build their own houses.

Architect

Architecture

House

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Able

Abstract Painting

America

Architect

Architecture

Art

Art Is

Artist

Backwards

Believe

British Monarchy

Car

Careers

Catholic

Chairs

Children

Commerce

Confusion

Copies

Copying

Couple

Crass

Done

Drunk

Effort

Ego

Fall

Fashion

Feels

Feet

Forever

Genius

Get Away

Get Over

Glasses

Goal

Going Out

Good Times

Growing

Growing Up

Guy

Horror

House

Ideas

Immortal

Immortality

Important

Infinite

Inspiration

Inspire

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Quotes by Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst

A lot of people thought I wasn’t doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I’ve always managed to get work actually done.

Art comes from everywhere. It’s your response to your surroundings.

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.

Artists are like everybody else.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

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.

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.

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

But then architects don’t build their own houses.

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