218 Quotes by Damien Hirst

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

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.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.