I’ve had laser eye surgery and I don’t wear glasses any more, so people just go, ‘You’re not Damien Hirst.’ I don’t get recognized on the street. Damien Hirst Read Quote
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings. Damien Hirst Read Quote
I’ve spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I’m more comfortable with it. Damien Hirst Read Quote
I realised that you couldn’t use the tools of yesterday to communicate today’s world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head. Damien Hirst Read Quote
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. Damien Hirst Read Quote
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you’re not. Damien Hirst Read Quote
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. Damien Hirst Read Quote
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it. Damien Hirst Read Quote
