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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The world weighs on my shouldersBut what am I to do?You sometimes drive me crazyBut I worry about youI know it makes no differenceTo what you’re going throughBut I see the tip of the icebergAnd I worry about you... - Distant Early Warning (1984)
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.
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A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
