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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

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

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

Artists are like everybody else.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

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

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

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

I made one untitled piece.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

There's no possible way you can get what you want.

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

I always ignore money.

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

But 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.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

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

Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

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.

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