I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

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

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've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

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