218 Quotes by Damien Hirst

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.

Whenever I go to another city to do an art exhibition, the only way to get through it is to get drunk, because it's so similar to the last one.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

To me it's like, this is the kind of world I live in and these are all the people who are artists who are doing what I'm doing, but in their own way.

I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

I've seen things that are 200 years old, in formaldehyde.

Anything you can do with your hands and feet. Great.

I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'