218 Quotes by Damien Hirst

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.

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

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

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.

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

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.

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.