Damien Hirst Painting Quotations

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

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. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

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

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.