218 Quotes by Damien Hirst

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.