“I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.” ShouldBelieveArtI BelievePaintingUpliftingViewersPainting And Art Author:Damien Hirst
“You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.” GreatnessPaintingMarkNervous Author:Damien Hirst
“I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.” PeopleThinkingArtImportantEndsPaintingArt IsImportanceThe End Of The DayLooking BackLooking Forward Author:Damien Hirst
“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.” WayGuyRoomsPaintingSpotsProcrastinationBlankCanvasBlank Canvas Author:Damien Hirst
“The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.” PaintingSpots Book:On the Way to Work Source: On the Way to Work
“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
“A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.” ValuesPaintingCostIncreaseSellsShocking Author:Damien Hirst
“Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.” ArtWorryPaintingLogicalPoeticGravitySculptureSculptorsSculpting Author:Damien Hirst
“I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.” IfsFeelsWellsPersonsBitsMillionsPositionStudentsPaintingWallPoundsTrappedPosters 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
