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Damien Hirst
 
Date of birth: 07 June 1965
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: England
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Artist

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    Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an England artist and the leading artist of the group that has been dubbed "Young British Artists" (or YBAs). He dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned. Death is a central theme in his work. He is .... (More...)
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" 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
" And I think, you know, I like it, so I can't understand it, I think if you're gonna have this stuff going in your ears, you might as well have some stuff going in your eyes. "

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" Anything you can do with your hands and feet. Great. "

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" Artists are like everybody else. "

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" Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us. "

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" 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. "

Damien Hirst
" 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. "

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

Damien Hirst
" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" But then architects don't build their own houses. "

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" 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. "

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" Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. "

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" I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work. "

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" I always ignore money. "

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