I was with this guy who was a plasterer, and at lunchtime h… - Damien Hirst

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I was with this guy who was a plasterer, and at lunchtime he was eating a stuffed heart . . . I was thinking, "I'm not like these guys. I'm an artist." And I saw a bee come over to some flowers and get all the pollen out. I was looking and thinking, "How does it do that?" And then the guy who was eating the stuffed heart said, "How does that bee do that?"

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Damien Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is a British artist, the most prominent of the Young British Artists.

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Birth Name: Damien Steven Hirst

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