“I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.” WayLooksKindI CanDoneSawsFashionIntegrityEgoModelsLosingBe Kind Author:Damien Hirst
“Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.” KindRealKidsWantedClassAmbitionDrawingStuckBeing The BestCant Author:Damien Hirst
“For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.” LooksKindMeanArtMadeMomentsPaintingSeriousArt IsTheaterSeriesEndlessSpotsThat MomentSpotlightImplied Author:Damien Hirst
“I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.” ThinkingKindFormPaintingFindingsComputerPaintPainterImaginaryRobots Author:Damien Hirst
“I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.” PeopleWantTryingKindArtistPicksEmployedMellow Author:Damien Hirst
“When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.” KindPersonsRealBritishMonarchyReal PersonWarholBritish Monarchy Author:Damien Hirst
“When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.” KindSaidSchoolUsedStuffPaintingAbstractColourNeglectFormalCurtainsTutorAbstract Painting Author:Damien Hirst
