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.

Never let money get in the way of an idea.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It’s kind of a Warhol thing.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That’s as close as you can get to immortality...

I’m 43. I’m not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer’s always staring me in the face. I’m already doing it.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

As an artist, you don’t stop making art because people are not buying it.

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.