Damien Hirst Quotes

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

I love having made a movie.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

For me, working on original material is very important.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.

When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

It takes so long to write a script, thinking to yourself, "Am I wasting my time? Am I putting everything into this thing that maybe just won't ever exist?" I always think, God, acting is so much easier. At least for acting you have the source material already.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.