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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. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#any #aristocratic #city #come #country

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #change #disturbing #find #fixed

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now! ↗

— Damien Hirst

#am #because #being #blank #blank canvas

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

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#conceptual #conceptual art #different #experience #good

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#careful #composition #element #factor #got

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. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#any #artist #aware #been #before

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #interesting #lot #me #retain

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

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#everyone #i #i think #important #lack