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Quote by Damien Hirst
Ive been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I al

Ive been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. Its great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and its all fixed so its a scary thing. – Damien Hirst

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I was taught to confront things you cant avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where youre trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers dont last for ever makes them beautiful. – Damien Hirst

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In an artwork youre always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. – Damien Hirst

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Art
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Great art – or good art – is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I dont think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. – Damien Hirst

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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. – Ulysses S. Grant

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The future will be better tomorrow. – Dan Quayle

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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. – Anna Freud

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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing. – Vidal Sassoon

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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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We dont need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. – Marco Rubio

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