“My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies the...” — Damien Hirst Quote

“My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.”

“A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.”

“For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.”

“I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.”

“My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.”

“My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.”