Damien Hirst | 10 Questions | TIME 

He always seems to be thinking at the back of his mind that he can't believe h'e got away with it for so long. It's as if he wants it to end to relieve the pressure he's been under. He didn't even pass his A level Art for heaven's sake.

Notice she introduces him as one of the worlds most successful, famous, wealthiest artists. Nothing about talent or skill or vision or inspiration. Just success fame and money. Welcome to what passes these days for art in New York.

HAHA THE INTERVIEWER IS JUST REEKING OF SARCASM !!! love it.

A bad poet tries to say something important. A good poet hangs out with words.

I've got a question for him. Why are you building an un-wanted extension of Ilfracombe with 700 houses on a field next to the town. We don't need it, and we don't want it.

She compared his million dollar skulls to pimp my ride television show. Godliest of compliments.

So, it IS possible to be a multimillionaire and a complete loser at the same time :D Thanks, Damien; you just made me feel really, really good about myself and realize how awesome it is to be a person with integrity by showing me what the exact opposite looks like! :)

The emperor isn't wearing anything

New York and Cosmopolitan Elites are the equivalent of an Emperor with New Clothes.

Mr Damien can you spare some change to on old lady like me-self. I million maybe??

In a way i think the spot paintings are about Damien hirst. He knew the reaction they'd get and thats why he made them.

'You make art from what's around you'... err. Sharks skulls and diamonds? Long Jong Silver, is he? :-) Anyway, from the amount of money he's got, he can just about afford three of my drawings.

Looks like Phil Collins younger brother.

Great salesman.

Hirst: anything done super well is art I guess he isn't artist

"red dots mean love" "black dots mean death". sir??! what?

Haah, Ms Luscombe, that was BRILLIANT.

The spots are done with what looks like a plastic paint that resembled plastic on some women's trainers I bought a couple of years ago and which I thought were deliberately intended to be unattractive. I'm making the point because I wondered if there were some link between the two, if for instance he were criticising a particular designer.

Hmm, how much animals were harmed during your artwork?

I think she's superb. Challenges him a bit. Most don't .

His work is about him making money. His ideas are based on what will make him more money. His work is bought by investors & not so much art collectors, though people who have art collections as an investment buy his work. Money. Simple.

yet even when the people hate him, are making others love him

I like his spot painting A better then spot painting B, it has more feeling, lol. I think somebody had to do this, one must have a precison to paint like this and the colors are great.

scuse the pun but why put the guy on the spot asking him bout his fortune when it is common knowledge?also she would never have the balls to ask a member of the royal fambly that what you worth question so in essence she is taking the working class boy to task the silly cow

Yup, it's the consumers that perpetuate this kind of work. kind of like pop music - no substance (although catchy, and marketed through attractive stars) but tons of demand

4:46 - 4:50 Yeah, OK. :|

I honestly think that's a really good idea.

Yes I have heard of them.

I looking at ways to be an successful artist and came across this guy and searched him on yt. Have to say I’m highly disappointed. Thought it was going to be someone with great skill and passion for art but no. I didn’t hear in passion in his voice for his artwork. I know we say “art is subjective” but y’all we need SOME type of standard if people like this are rising to the top for dots

that tone shift towards the end.

everyone talks about the skull as if it were merely a thing... shouldn't people be asking WHO that was before it became a piece of artwork?!?

I love him and his art. He is a f*cking genius!

horrible insulting reporter, more concerned with insulting damien hirst than actually hearing his side of the story. this is tv journalism i guess

even tho in theory i hate these dots if i had a chance to see them in a gallery i probably would

dont judge by his words. judge by his actions. Its easy to say you dont care about money when you've got 300 million in the bank. But what do you think the price tag was on one of those dot paintings?

The English subtitles are so lame and full of misunderstandings they hardly make any sense. I even suspect that this was done on purpose. Should you need new subtitles, I'd quite happily volunteer.

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I just watched the documentary. Someone tell me whats up with the Mickey Mouse sculpture???

Whether you respect him as an artist on not, there's no denying his business acumen. "His" pieces polarize public opinion, but this have little bearing since his customers are not the mass but the fat cats, who lap it up. But their milk turned sour after the bubble burst, yet Hirst came away smiling. You may doubt his proficiency as an artist, but he is a master con-artist.

This is what you call art? You through a bunch of spots on a white frame and you've suddenly made art? My bathroom has spotted wallpaper, so wheres my fame and fortune? This guy is the poster child of modern "art".

There's only one question; .... Why

Superficial interview, you don't need Hirst to answer those questions, all those questions are already answered 100 years ago in art history.

@modernhumble well, there has to be one

This was really insightful.

some people!!!commenting here want their artists to remain poor while they themselves hate being poor surely.who likes being poor?and as for the oh he aint a good painter thing well...he can paint too.he chooses to do other stuff like duchamp ...whats wrong with a floating beach ball .?how is it inferior to a master painting of god and the angels or the king and his wife?

He laments a World where there is love 'amazing' and yet there is also the murder of children 'in Africa'. Indeed the World is populated by those who know love and also by far too many with empty hearts. He should be grateful however, it's the self-seekers and sociopaths who have given monetary value and recognition to his vacuous art. In a near-perfect World Hirst would be a bus driver.

ADMIRAL LORD NELSON WHAT A HONOUR.

that was the point of the YBA's

she isn't a very good interviewer

This is a rather bad interview. Damien Hirst is actually a quite capable and, at times, even brilliant artist. But perhaps he nailed it when he said that it's hard to make art when you're rich.

Making it up as he goes you should name him bingo a little spot you buy

What people missed...was that it was self therapy...how to handle insanity...how to deal with my past...

I've a feeling his worst fear will happen, maybe already...

This guy is a professional troll.

Dali did the spots in the 50's.

He says 'you know' a lot

I feel kind of sad for hirst when I watch this. He's like a child.

So. If that woman was interviewing me, I would have told her to ---- off.

My Art is All About Money it's self & time & YOU can Price my art Yourself 🔘⚪⚫🔴🔵

History will teach you a lesson

Why?

its the people who purchase his works that are chumps, and should be asked why

Just one thing: HAMPARTE

I would disagree that anything done well is art. Any conscious action is art.

Hmm, seems to me that he worked hard for what he has, and gets paid well for that. I'm not a fan of the midlands and the hardness of those from there, but he seems to break the mold.

clearly you didn't listen to the interview

I love when good artists make good money. I think everyone should have business skill.

I saw Doug Demuro review on a Las vegas suites and the Theme was terrible led me to this artist who designed it I think is very bad. Your paying 100k$ a night and you see polka dots theme shit.

Artist? It is much to say.

Damien Hirst AND Jhoan Roa ARE MY FAVORITE ARTISTS

I dislike the way contemporary artists colonise an idea - usually someone else's idea. The dots are originally from scientific manuals and the spin paintings are obviously from funfairs.

If he wasn't as rich people wouldn't be so mad. His work is great. Hes not davinci, but he never said he was. Take artwork for what it is and stop hoping on the hate bandwaggon.

Its not the actual piece of art in itself thats essential. Its this great man.

and your opinion is?

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Damien Hirst is a fraud lol He has some unique ideas. I kinda like the painted dots, that are supposed to show imperfection by the human hand. It could definitely be better though with some more thought put into it. Seems like something anyone could do for an art project in school. The thousand years artwork, seems more like an experiment you could do for a RU-vid video, but he just said "this is art" and ran with it. In my personal opinion he gets credit for more than he actually achieves, and as proof of this i want you to see the hotel room he created which is covered in "More Doug Demuro" 's video "Here's a Tour of the World's Most Expensive Hotel Room ($100K/Night)". When you look at what Damien Hirst has done here he just slapped some of his signature work on the walls and was like "my work here is done" instead of innovating new art. There is litterally medical trash under the kitchen table, which is supposed to resemble the pharmaceutical and medical art he does. Instead it just looks like someone hasn't cleaned the kitchen table for years. The rainbow colours used everywhere makes it look more like a McDonald's playroom than a 100K USD PER NIGHT LUXURY HOTEL ROOM hahahahah. And dont get me started on the pills he has on the walls or the pill packages he assorted in rainbow colours and said "ART!". To me it seems like he created his arts not from random genius thoughts like most artists, but instead he was like "I'm gonna do something that makes me look like a genius artist" and so he took the first ideas that came to his head. The whole hotel room was also just old art pieces and he reused them because he couldnt bother to make new exclusive art for the hotel room even though he was probably paid millions to do it. Don't get me wrong, some of his artworks are kind of maybe mildly unique, but the hotel room really shows that he only creates art when its necessary and not because he wants to. To me he seems like a con artist just trying to get by in the art world. Like no real artist (who wants to innovate) would ever do what he did to that hotel room if they were offered the opportunity. Something that would have been more fitting for a hotel room, which would be luxury.

Is he a charlatan or not ?

Soll noch einer sagen die Malerei hätte seit Caravaggio und Leonardo nicht wahnsinnige Fortschritte gemacht!

Why do do spots

Shows there's hope for brickies and decorators to make a living in art - if that's not too much of an insult to brickies and decorators? The system's totally bent, DH merely one of its instruments (of torture, lol). Money for old rope - we'd all do it in his place for sure. Good luck to the guy..

I reckon hes prime position for pimp my skull❤

Here get Santandersy in kerching

Habla cañon como Pete Doherty 😮

True artist create their own work they're Outsourcing to make more money it's more about money than art phony baloney

Completely anti Hirst biased but better than nothing

Regardless of your opinion of Hirst and his work that interviewer was so disrespectful and rude for no reason.

Whether you like Damien Hirst or not-his boldly creative imprimatura on contemporary art has been monumental since the late 1980s. His work is often viewed as being overtly morbid and obsessively fixated with ideas that solely revolve around death and decay. In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, his work examines many of the starker perils and pitfalls of our existence as human beings-chief amongst those are our ongoing compulsive addictions-albeit to prescription drugs and/or the decadent excesses of our insatiable desire to want more of everything. Thus, simply put, Damien Hirst reminds us-via his use of adroitly conceptual dialogue-that life and death are, in fact, an inextricably convergent tapestry of sorts. Therefore, through his signature use of controversial objects, e.g., the severed cadavers of dead animals and preserved insects, he forcibly compels us to accept these universal truths that lie at the foundational core of this symbiotic relationship.

And then we are and then an end and we do this and art and then and then that I started it and then then then and and and and we do this over here I didn't know this is my feelings towards la la la so things are things Ellen and I are in my preciation and lalalalala

Why not ask the artist who's idea it was in the first place to paint spots like that !!!!!!!!!! Oh, and the spinning ones. The spatckcocked animal and the pharmacy one ! All original ideas,produced and shown by other artists. The butterfly designs another. Checkout " The art Damien Hirst stole" on youtube. You'll be closer to the truth then.

Let me begin by telling you that when my brother was just starting school, he rebelled at the rules of spelling. Why did words have to be spelled in a particular way? Why couldn't he spell them as he wanted to spell them? He resented the rules and he resisted the authority of those who made them ! Keep this in mind. I think that Conceptual art comes from people who could not and would not do the difficult work required to become a 'traditional' artist. Can't master the necessary skills ? Can't understand how to use color to create mood? Can't master composition? Can't draw or understand human anatomy? Can't figure out how to express your feelings with image? Can't be bothered ? Well then, belittle the importance of those skills and debase the notion that they are a prerequisite to creating art. Instead, create an art genre that you CAN do. A new genre...conceptual art. Conceptual artists claim that IDEAS and CONCEPTS are the main feature of their art. They can slap anything together and call it ''conceptual art'' confident that viewers will find SOMETHING to think about it no matter how banal or trivial the artist's concept! There is no way conceptual art pieces can be judged. The promoters of this art have attacked the motives and credibility of authorities and critics who might disparage the work. They have rejected museums and galleries as defining authorities. They reject the idea that art can be judged or criticized . All of this results in a decline in standards. And when you jettison standards, quality suffers. There really IS such a thing as BAD art ! We know this only because we have standards and criteria by which such things can be evaluated. It seems that conceptual art comes down to a basic idea: No one has the right or authority to make any judgments about art ! Art is anything you can get away with ! A whole new language has been created to give the work an air of legitimacy and gravitas. Conceptual art is 'sold' to the unwary public with ....."ArtSpeak". ArtSpeak is a unique assemblage of English words and phrases that the International Art world uses but which are devoid of meaning! Have you ever found yourself confronted by an art gallery’s description of an exhibition which seems completely indecipherable? Or an artist’s statement about their work which left you more confused than enlightened? You’re not alone. Here are examples of ArtSpeak: ''..she manipulates architectural structures in order to deconstruct socially defined spaces and their uses and test novel and playful possibilities." Or ' 'Works that probe the dialectic between innovations that seem to have been forgotten, the ruinous present state of projects once created amid great euphoria, and the present as an era of transitions and new beginnings.'' This language is meant to convince me that there is real substance to this drivel which is being passed off as 'art'. But I don't buy it. Plenty of other people DO buy it. But not because they understand or love the work. They are laying out enormous sums in the belief that their investment will bring them high returns in the future. One Jeff Koons conceptual piece is three basketballs suspended in a fish tank. Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim: “ This is an ultimate state of being. I wanted to play with people’s desires. They desire this equilibrium. They desire pre-birth. I was giving a definition of life and death. This is the eternal. This is what life is like, also, after death. Aspects of the eternal” Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!! It sold for $350,000. I wonder what it would have fetched without Koons' name attached to it. ___________________________________ Something radical has happened to the art scene in the past 50 years. Cubism slid into non-representational art....what is called Abstract. Abstract or non-representational art is a legitimate and often profound genre. But to many people, it appeared as if this new style had no structure or principles. It’s markings seemed random and arbitrary. Something that anyone could do. Any composition of blotches or scribbles was “Abstract Art”. This was the slippery slope that led to the abandonment of standards in art. Art is what I say it is ! And lots of people jumped on the art bandwagon. A tacit agreement forms among critics, galleries, publications and auction houses to promote and celebrate certain artists and styles. Objects with no artistic merit are touted and praised . Their value increases with every magazine article, every exhibition in a prestigious gallery. And when they come up for auction, sometimes the auction houses will lend vast sums to a bidder so that it appears as if the work of the particular artist is increasing in value. The upward spiral begins and fortunes are made. And many are reluctant to declare that the Emperor is, in fact, naked lest they appear boorish unsophisticated Philistines ! This now the state of Contemporary art. The love of money is the root of all evil. It has corrupted politics. It has corrupted sport. It has corrupted healthcare. It has corrupted religion. And now it has corrupted art. But, there is reason to hope. As much of the wisdom of the Greeks and Romans was kept alive through the Middle Ages in small pockets of learning and culture, ateliers have sprung up around the world that are devoted to preserving and handing down the traditional visual arts: drawing, painting and sculpting to each new generation. And when this craze for conceptual art has burned itself out and when visual art is no longer looked on as mere decoration and when schools that have dissolved their art programs want to reestablish them again, the world will find these skills preserved through the atelier movement.

When he created his own Works they were phenomenal but now no good

Asking someone their net worth is incredibly rude. Why does these media scumbags think they can ask people rude questions like that?

#hamparte

And the light blue ones are about the children murdered in Africa apparently did you not get that the light blue dots an African children

i have never been to an art school. nor do i draw to sell or stream. but i know for a fact that i could draw better than him.

God I feel like I lost brain cells watching this exchange

Yes it's you but not because of you are an artist, it is so because you let other people do it for ya

The thing about art is that you need context to understand the underlying theme below the surface. Piet Mondrian, Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, two conceptual artists that when I first saw their art, thought it was rubbish but after understanding the motivations, realised they may have been onto something. Perhaps the true exceptions to the rubbish that has plagued the 'art is in the eye of the beholder' that has ruined aesthetics over the conceptual. But the thing is, conceptual art is important. It's just that so much dadaism is rubbish and so much contemporary conceptual artists try to replicate the genius Kandinsky and Duchamp did and end up ruining art. Damien Hirst, from this comment section seems to be hated on because of the assumption that he put no effort into his art and all he did was paint dots. But in truth, Jackson Pollock is the true garbage who put no effort. Damien Hirst on the other hand, I'm trynna say, he DOES put in thought to his conceptual art. See- his first couple works on the dot paintings were painted by hand using a compass and tools to exemplify the imperfections the human touch imprints onto a painting. With the precision of machinery that are able to produce perfect dots, Hirst's man-made dots were full of imperfections, cracks and brush strokes observed in the white surrounding and dots. The concept of the human touch of imperfection possessing a sense of perfection can be observed in his later life with the mass-manufacturing of these perfect dots with machines that essentially devoid the later dot paintings of the original purpose that kinda backfired on itself, kinda ironic. His other works follow the theme of death. Same theme of death, different mediums to explain the same thing. I'm too lazy to explain the analysis behind his other messed up works but his installations are really all about life and death. We eat animals but we somehow can't confront the butchering of the animals. So... a work like 'Mother and Child (Divided)' allows you to walk past the rotting corpse stored in formaldehyde solution as an introspective piece. Another piece from afar, looks aesthetically pleasing, real beautiful. Look closer and you realise that the patterns that construct the piece is made of innumerous butterfly wings. So many butterfly wings. The dude really killed alot of animals. Trust me though, it's not just animal cruelty. There's a purpose behind it but go ahead and research 'A thousand years' the art work by him to 'get' him. Personally, I like his art. Similar to Francis Bacon and really quite fascinating. His works are conceptual art so... if you dont get what he's doing, just google it.

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