#kin

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#did #hamlet #juliet #kind #like

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#answer #anyway #doing #how #however

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. ↗

— Novalis

#dream #dreaming #near #waking

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. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#afraid #always #been #beginning #form

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #artistic #artwork #ashtray #death

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #art #better #feeling #good

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. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #because #came #colour #curtains

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#amazing #because #films #good #i

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#around #avoid #best #calm #clear

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#audience #body #cinderella #coach #director