Damien Hirst Quotes
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I always played to win.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Now, to-day, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.
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To Aquinas the intellect stands at the summit of ... the human soul.
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Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
