The Truth About Art - interview with Damien Hirst

[hideouschud]

There is nothing sacred about sacrifice... What do you call waking up every morning?.... Is it a sacrifice to the light.... Or a blessing... Who knows right?

[dazimo]

How on earth got this coke snorting label-man to get the new-money people to empty their pockets for him? How on earth did the director of the Dutch Rijksmuseum got so lost to expose his diamond covered skull? What went wrong with you people? Hirst is the icon of jokers of the so called modern art market.

[Django5198]

Everything is art. Buildings, paintings, sculptures, films, music, stuffed animals, photographs, found objects, cars, boats, planes, clothes. Think about it

[MegaMytube99]

@Django5198 how insightful.

[TheViolenceMan]

lol ART... the pharmacy serie is interesting, and some works with animals too, but the majority of his work is shit

[peyotesavedmylife]

we'll never know what art is, nobody will. that's the intriguing side of it

[peyotesavedmylife]

baker 3!!!

[27GVF]

Hes NOT an artist.!

he is just good at PR and kissing corporate arse !

A MAJOR TWAT

[DougBDIT]

@27GVF yeah agree.... a major rich twat though!

[chaosproduction]

There is too much ignorance in peoples idea of art.

[LondonDada]

" When flesh starts to rot it assumes the qualities of oil paint "

And rotting art assumes the depth of a Sun-reading brickie

[misternylon]

SNOOOOOOOOOORT!!!!!!!!

[eenkjet]

for a minute, i was like, "hey, these hirst's aren't bad. in fact they show a real command of medium"... then i realized that they weren't hirsts. wah-wah-waaaahh.

[MrSmackdown100]

@eenkjet I was the same. See these paintings and think that Hirst is a fucking genius .Then we find out its a proper artist and not Hirst.

[pudgimelon]

If Damien Hirst dies in a fire, can we all agree THAT would be art?

[art2raw]

I am artsy farsty 2, butt my sick thoughts are the shit, where he failed I shall succeed.

[trinitaterion]

VINCENT VAN GOGH I COMMAND YOU TO RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE AND DISPOSE THE EARTH OF THESE CLOWNS THAT DO NOT HAVE THE PROPER SENSIBILITY OF LIFE TO CREATE GREAT ART!

[boogiebuddy01]

art is hard

[dorotttta]

so what he said about the truthabout art? I didn't udenerstand.

[ignoranttwat]

If you want the truth about art, why the fuck are talking to Damien Hirst?

[almishti]

Oh fuckin' spare me.

[EchoCram]

LOVE this music! It's in The Squid & The Whale too, I think. Does anybody know what it is?

[orangesquidge]

@EchoCram It's by Lou Reed, can't remember the name though.

[Hesperia86]

@EchoCram I love the song, too! It's called "Street Hassle" by Lou Reed.

[bradfordstearman11]

elementary artist with a lot of money



[goodgoodgoodful]

way too eccentric arts if not to say, strange.

[repelghosts]

eVERYTIME i MAKE A PROFIT OF OVR 200,000.usd A YEAR, i GO INTO THE CORNER AND KISS MY REFLECTION IN THE MIRROR....DONT YA JUST FEEL SORRY FOR JEALOUS INDIVIDUALS ,WHO KNOW SHIT ABOUT ART, BUT ,YES, IF YOU HAVE STUDIED ENOUGH,PAID ATTEBNTION ENOUGH TO AUCTIONS HAMMER PRICES...ANYONE CAN MAKE INCREDIBLY LAG PROFITS IN THE ART WORLD.

BUT, LIKE ANY COMMODITY, ON MUST LARN,LEARN,LEARN THE MARKETS.

DR. J.

CANADA.

[Loobs666]

Yo Damien... you remember Allerton Grange and its strange and beautiful women. Some have passed away, and may the Savva women Rest in Peace. Stella Savva, Thalia Savva, Gina Savva...all gone, but deffo not forgotten! Ladys, Sleep Well!

[thornbird7556]

I don't know, but it was the song played @ the end of the movie The Squid & The Whale, if that helps you look for it. Good luck.

[2181190]

Whats the name of that song?

[bagoona]

it`s amazing how they can put so many words to art & non art.

[emilytodd28]

Wouldnt know has havent seen rotting flesh. Hirst you are a very bizzare man that seems like he would be more suited to doing a lock stock movie rather than trying to slap paint around. When he wakes up the next day hungover does he just think oh well fuck it, slap it in the tate anyway and see if those London twats fall fir it.

[oneshoeatatime]

isnt it funny....super funny i find it, we arguing about art? art is art, art has a different definition in everyones minds, let it be, for him it might be that, so then let it be that, just go along with it, we dont need to argue.

[bagoona]

he steals from many here

[t7g6s8]

all post modern artists do, duh

[bugland23]

Now, that's original!

Hirst "I think that Soutine was using oil paint as putrid flesh"

compare

"...Soutine [a painting of a carcasse of an ox] gave it a even more intense sense of carnality as though the paint itself was also a thick paste of meat..." Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, BBC TV, 1980

[door2yourheart]

Kinda this, kinda that, lol! What a sorta semi literate kinda manipulated, cash cow this twat actually is!

Slice the moron in half, and label it as "cunt"!

[taxandroid]

bad works

[kilby64]

for anyone who comments negative remarks on work like Hirst. they dont quite understand it. your the sort of people stuck in the past not understanding contemporary work. The fact is that art like this is changing how soceity views things and social acceptance of ideas. Hirst specifically works with a team and any artist couldnt work without the assistance of someone. His work is his because it was him who brought up the concept for the peice and had the bottle to do it.

[themachman19691]

no...he just creates shit.

[door2yourheart]

This semi literate twat should slice himself in half, then get some one who can spell to make a label for it saying "CUNT"!

Hirst has done absolutely nothing to change anybodys ideas about anything at all! Its all been done before, but far more eloquently! The content of his work is almost non existent and so predictable. He is merely a cash cow for bourgeois, pretentious art industry entrepreneurs. They see him as a quaint, naive  life form, exemplifying an existence that is other to their own

[kilby64]

ok, but it seems to off changed the industry hasnt it? a complete transition in the contemporary art world since the Young British Artists. without this change we would have a gallery full of "pretty" pictures. surely the fact he is envoking all these emotions with people and responses is an art in itself. Personally i just enjoy contemporary art and everyone has their own opinions on art. But then everything is art. make your own opinions thats the subjectiveness of art.

[WhatExactlyisAJoke]

If your not happy with other peoples art, make your own.

[themachman19691]

art is money

[wuz352]

For all of you idiots that do not know: art IS a con. All of art is a lie. Damien Hirst just happens to be so good at being a con that it is believable. Even Michelangelo was a forger. Go somewhere and fuck yourselves with your ignorance, because whether you like it or not, Damien Hirst will be remembered and you won't be.

[TZAVELENA]

@wuz352 remembered for wahat exactly....this is something we do not know for, since YOU are ignorant....many artists who were the bees knees in their time are not known or even bothered with today, and others who were not are.....so maybe you should take your own advice since we can't possibly know what the future will value....before the fetishisation of ancient ruins, local would use the remains to make houaes to live in or used ancient heads of statues as door-stops...

[wuz352]

@TZAVELENA Mmmhmm... sure... yeah... not really at all about anything you said, haha. You're blabbing on incoherently. When you can make a sentence, THEN argue. And you call me ignorant, haha.

[TZAVELENA]

@wuz352 sorry, I was in a rush for work. I think you understand what I mean though despite it all.

[travis903]

@TZAVELENA thumbs up for "bees knees"

[MrEinZwei]

@wuz352 I'd rather not be remembered for being a shallow twat from Leeds.

[sethdesade]

@MrEinZwei Don't worry, you won't be remembered at all.

[Sreggaematic09]

uh....what would Damien Hirst know about art?

[ForstaSvenskenIRymdn]

what would you know about what damien hirst knows about art?

[ArtisticLady]

Artist!?! He's the biggest CON artist!

[pozo1964]

oh shit! I paint too!

[dojufitz]

Hirst snorts his nose to get a bit more coke out of his nostril.

[juliakasprzak]

a shame for culture and art... boo

[jammymum]

lol

[ninjakidou]

okkkeyy...whats the interwiew??!!! and whats the truth about art? daAA..THE SENTENCE HIRST SAID DOES NOT HAVE ANY SENSE IN A COMPREHENSIVE WAY AND THE WAY HE SNOR WITH HIS NOSE IS LIKE A REDNECK.

[nycpntr]

how is this crap?

[jammymum]

its total crap! "...in a tormented way, religious pictures about life's terror..." ? People like hirst are the terrors we need to watch out for. the sickos who twist things and make them beautifully, evil! Sickly, sweet! Artistic, not sick and twisted. Hirt is talented - but he's clearly sick... deeply, deeply sick!

[Animatronica]

Yeah, because you know him.

You've talked to him.

You've had dinner with him.

And you're his psycho analyst.

That's why you know Hirst is "deeply, deeply sick!".

Fuck off, will ya?

[jammymum]

unhealthy obsession with dead animals - dontcha think?

[Jonnymont]

why doesn't he kill himself and then get someone to draw him dead. everyone wins

[chandru1103]

yeh let's dehumanize people.....those that annoy us we should just hope kill themselves....Yeh i really liked the part of that statement that says that we should draw him dead too....it really shows what a callous, cold-hearted, evil dick head you are!

[Jonnymont]

hahaha get over yourself tightwad

[chandru1103]

I will when you do the same

[Jonnymont]

whatever dude, i made some comment 4 days ago woopde fuckndo..

your wasting both our time, and please don't reply to this

cio

[jammymum]

No, I think the point Jonnymont was making was, subconsciously, perhaps Hirst envisages himself dead and drawn. Perhaps Hirst wants that when he has died. It is artistic to some? Unhealthy interest to others. I don't think personal remarks are called for. Have you got issues that you want to raise? You've used a lot of negative words toward Jonnymont... curious reaction

[chandru1103]

Muskrat

[jammymum]

lol!

[postmanvince]

PURE CRAP