A Quote by Damien Hirst

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Damien Hirst

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Art Death Always Artistic Artwork Ashtray Decisions Got Life Life And Death Looking Perfect

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Damien Hirst
British - Artist
Born: June 7, 1965

Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

John Michael Hayes

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

Tom Stoppard

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

Margrethe II of Denmark

A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.

Scott Adams

Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

Helen Rowland

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

Anna Akhmatova

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Damien Hirst

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

Dusty Hill

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.

Roger Ailes

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

Roger Ailes

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Milan Kundera

There's something about working in adverse conditions. It keeps it interesting. I always notice if I ever sit down with a pen and piece of paper and a guitar, and I have a beverage and an ashtray and I'm comfortable on the couch, I fall asleep.