Damien Hirst

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live ↗

— Damien Hirst

#life

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#gravity #logical #makes #more #painting

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#belief #religion #science #art

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#drunk #see #sometimes #you

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#hit #i #influence #interested #jaws

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

— Damien Hirst

#i think #life #most #perfect #suicide

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

— Damien Hirst

#art #feel #i #i always #just

Artists are like everybody else. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#else #everybody #everybody else #like

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

— Damien Hirst

#father #hugging #i #i am #i do

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

— Damien Hirst

#increase #make #most #painting #probably