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.

I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

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

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

Artists are like everybody else.

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.