People think they are not allowed to laugh at art, but they are. Damien Hirst laughs at himself. I know Jake and Dinos Chapman and they laugh all the time at what they do and at other artists.
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
I'd like to work with Damien Hirst.
I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
I'm a long way from being a Damien Hirst.
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
Damien Hirst knows how to drive super-fast cars... I love my bicycle.
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.
A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time.
I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.
The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.