More - Damien Hirst Quotes

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

Damien Hirst

 England

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

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

But I'm not ambitious for myself, or for attention.

Damien Hirst

 

Whereas if you suddenly go, OK, I choose to die now, you take the matter into your own hands.

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.

Damien Hirst

 

I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.

Damien Hirst

 

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

Damien Hirst

 Berlin

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

Damien Hirst

 

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

 Believe British Artist