But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

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 always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.