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Damien Hirst Quotes: The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
         

The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.


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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.



I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.



It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.



I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.



Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.



You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.



I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.



I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.



I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.





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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

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