Damien Hirst Quotes

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

I want to bring art into everything.

For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

Through art, you create your own world.

Art is a sense of magic.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.