“I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things.”
Spalding, Julian. "Why it's OK not to like modern art" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1098907.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2, The Times, 8 May 2003.<br>Hirst quoted by Julian Stallabrass in 1990.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Damien Hirst7
artist 1965Related quotes
“Art is whatever you can get away with.”
Marshall McLuhan book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
Source: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model
Interview in autostraddle.com (5 March 2010) http://www.autostraddle.com/jennifer-beals-photographs-the-l-word-cast-is-perfect-the-autostraddle-interview-35670/2/.
“I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199806232054.NAA01735@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues, written by Elton John, Bernie Taupin, and Davey Johnstone
Song lyrics, Too Low for Zero (1983)
“You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better.”
Richard Ford (1944) American novelist and short story writer
Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 171