The 107+ Damien Hirst Quotes

A Painting Probably Is The Most Shocking Increase In Value, From What It Costs To Make To What You Sell It For.

I Liked The Beatles A Lot When I Was Growing Up.

I Used To Watch 'top Of The Pops' When I Was A Kid And Say 'yeah!' Or 'boo!' At Every Single Song. So There Was Nothing In The Middle. You Brutally Put It On One Side Or Another.

I Was Brought Up Catholic, And I Felt The Power Of Art From A Very Young Age - Seeing The Brutality Of All Those Images Of Flayed Apostles And Tortured Saints Was A Pretty Strong Introduction.

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.

You Can Always Tell A Great Painting, Because When You Get Close There Are All These Nervous Marks.

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 Whenever I Look At The Question Of How To Live, The Answer's Always Staring Me In The Face. I'm Already Doing It.

In Fact, The First Piece Of Art I Ever Sold, I Paid Someone Else To Make The Next One, So I Could Actually Keep Going Out Drinking.

I Quite Like It To Be Risky. I'm Not Ready To Sit Down In A Chair With My Name On It Yet. I've Arrived At That Point In The Art World Where There Really Is A Chair That You Sit In.

I Mean, People Listen To Music, And They Like That, But I Think In England, A Lot Of People Don't Like Contemporary Art.

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.