Skip to content

Damien Hirst Quotes

born 1965 England

Damien Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is a British artist, the most prominent of the Young British Artists.

England
Painters

Also known as: Damien HIrst, Hirst, Damien

Random Damien Hirst quote

6 quotes

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

It’s not a coincidence that governments use art on coins and notes. They do this to help us believe in money. Without art, it’s hard for us to believe in anything.

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.

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. There's boring conceptual art and there's boring traditional art. Great art is if you can't stop thinking about it, then it becomes a memory.

I started taking cocaine and drink ... I turned into a babbling fucking wreck.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Damien Hirst (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.