When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

  • -- Damien Hirst 赫斯特

当我在学校画抽象画的时候,和其他人一样,老师说这些画可以做成很好的窗帘。我总是会忽略使用颜色的形式,因为颜色对我来说很自然。

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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

所有的图画都是不自然的。所有的照片都很悲伤,因为它们是关于死人的。你不会在一个特殊的时间或特定的事件中想到绘画。拍照片的时候,我总觉得自己在看一些死去的东西。

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

我喜欢保留一些原始的抽象思想,因为问题是,当你拿起笔的时候,你会变成一个势利小人,一个更糟糕的批评家。你以一种非创造性的方式编辑自己。

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

我认为艺术善于回顾和展望。我不认为艺术擅长正面观察。说到底,人比画更重要。

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

我想成为一名抽象画家,但我做得很糟。