inspired by: Damien Hirst

I understand nearly everyone of his works as self-portraiture, and I think he is an artist of incredibly bravery as well as conceptual genius.

“As an artist you’re looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I’m striving for both.”
–Damien Hirst

“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.”
–Damien Hirst

“I don’t have a career plan.”
–Damien Hirst

“Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.”
–Damien Hirst