218 Quotes by Damien Hirst

It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

I don't really have a career plan.

You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it’s a poor substitute – you’re working for people not yet born – and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it’s their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who’s an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple.