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Damien Hirst
British
Artist
About the author
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 to London when you can't take it any more is different.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#People
#Country
#London
#Weekend
It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Time
#Money
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Life
#Death
#Decisions
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Immortality
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Life
#Suicide
Artists are like everybody else.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Artists
I made one untitled piece.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
I always ignore money.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Money
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Work
#Art
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.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Time
#People
#Work
#Thought
But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Question
But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Thinking
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#People
#Saying
#Influence
I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Suicide
#Dying
#Smoking
It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Love
#Idea
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,
British
Artist
#Word
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
There's no possible way you can get what you want.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist
#Want
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,
British
Artist
#Life
#Goal
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
Damien Hirst,
British
Artist