I Think As An Artist You Have

You Have To Step Over The Boundaries Sometimes Just To Find Out Where Theyare.

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.

You've Got To Be Oblivious To Other People, The Push And Pull Of Other People's Opinions, The Way Other People Measure Success. It's Then That You Realize You Are 100 Percent Who You Are And You Have To Use That Who-you-are 100 Percent In Order To Create Great Things.

To Be An Artist Is Not About Fame; It's About Art, Which Is This Intangible Thing That Has Got To Have Lots Of Integrity, Whereas Being Famous Doesn't Really Take Any Integrity. But I Think You Have To Admit That You Want To Be Famous, Otherwise You Can't Be An Artist. Art And Fame Together Are Like A Desire To Live Forever.

But I Always Liked The Fact That You Get These Totally Unacceptable Images, But They're Taken By A Really Expensive Photographer, With Great Light, And In Terms Of The Quality Of The Photograph It's A Great Photograph, But In Terms Of Imagery It's Unacceptable, And I Like That Contradiction.