Totally missing the point

January 11 2012

Damien Hirst fights back, in an interview with Reuters, about his spot paintings:

Q: Is it true you painted only five of the some 1,400 spot paintings? How can you put your name to works with which you are only very loosely linked? Or is that to miss the point?

A: "Totally missing the point, and it amazes me that I still get asked these questions. You have to look at it as if the artist is an architect, and we don't have a problem that great architects don't actually build the houses."

I get it now - Hirst doesn't paint paintings. He builds them.

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