“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
“As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.” PeopleArtArtistArt IsSellingBuying Author:Damien Hirst
“Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.” ArtElementsSkinsSakeWhy NotSensationsTouchingSensational Author:Damien Hirst
“But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.” StandardsJudgementObscene Author: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.” EnoughBigsWantedImagineAmountLiquidSharks Author:Damien Hirst
“Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.” IfsThinkingWritingArtSaidMightInterestingGoes OnTitlesWorks Of ArtSomething Interesting Author:Damien Hirst
“I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?” WantUnhappyUnhappinessWant To Be HappyI Want To Be Happy Author:Paul Schrader
“Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.” MayWishCan DoSimpleFiguresPaintSpheresConesCylinders Author:Paul Cezanne
“Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.” BornGenerationsMinesPainter Author:Paul Cezanne
“The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.” SometimesFeelingsAcceptanceModestStimulus Author:Paul Cezanne