"I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things."

-- Damien Hirst

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“Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.”
“I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.”
“I'm so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.”

Source : "Incredible Lightness" by Julie L. Belcove, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 19, 2013.
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
“The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is disappointment and cynicism and the search for what's next. And it's really in the search for what's next after that that we come upon ideas like increasing standardized testing for kids and using those tests scores to hold teachers accountable.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.”

Source : Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.148, Hachette UK
“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”

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