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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

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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.

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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

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

From Damien Hirst

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

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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.

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

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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

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