218 Quotes by Damien Hirst

Artists are like everybody else.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

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.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.