“I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.” PeopleThinkingMeanArtEnglandContemporaryListening To MusicMean PeopleContemporary Art Author:Damien Hirst
“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.” PeopleWayWantWritingWellsArtistHateSoundUniversalI HateImpactCriticsStriveTriggersDictionaryDeep Meaning Author:Damien Hirst
“Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.” PeopleArtNamesImmortalityMuseums 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
“As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.” PeopleArtArtistArt IsSellingBuying Author:Damien Hirst
“I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things.” PeopleIfsLooksArtI CanMomentsCertainWaitingPositionGet Away Author:Damien Hirst
“Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.” PeopleWantGivingArtEndsBornPoorRichArt IsBrilliantImmortalityPocketsSubstitutesMuseumsClosestShrouds 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
“You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.” PeopleWayUseOrderRealizingOpinionPercentWho You AreGreat ThingsObliviousMeasure Of Success Author:Damien Hirst
“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.” PeopleIfsInspirationalMindArtBigsArtistFearChangeListeningEntrepreneurDebateIgnoredMaking ChangesBeing Ignored Author:Damien Hirst
“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.” PeopleDoneSpendingGoing OutSocialising Author:Damien Hirst
“Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.” PeopleDifferentCountryCitiesLondonWeekendAristocraticPosh Author: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.” PeopleInfluenceFrightened Author:Damien Hirst
“I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.” PeopleBelieveArtI CanMedicineDon't BelieveQuestioningBelieve In Me Author:Damien Hirst
