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Damien Hirst Biography

Damien Steven Hirst (/hɜːrst/; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215M in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

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I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

Boundaries, Found, Freedom, Stop, Stopped

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

Children, Definitely, Everybody, Thing, Thinking, Trying

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.

Already, Answers, Doing Me, Look, Looks, Question

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

Communicate, Communication, Nothing, Say, Sometimes, Want

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

Perfect, Suicide, Thing, Thinking

Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.

Backwards, Commerce, Commercials, Involved, Visual, World

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

Art, Museums, Name, Names, People

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

Actually, Cities, Country, Different, Live, Weekend

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Important, Lack, Money, Painful, Thinking

I always ignore money.

Ignore, Money

The idea is more important than the object.

Art, Idea, Ideas, Important, Object

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.

Art, Head, Interesting, Thinking, Work, Writing

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.

Answer, Answers, Live, Stop, Thinking

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.

British Monarchy, Image, Kind, Real, Seduced, Warhol

As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f. . . dictionary.

Artist, Hate, Triggers, Write, Writing

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.

Floating, Sculpture, Sculptures, Titles

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

Done, Going Out, Managed, People, Spending, Work

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

False, Goal, Measure Of Success, Success, Term

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

Father, Hug, Mother, Say

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

Art, Feels, Like, See, Work

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