beautiful, beautiful, nasty, mean, heartless, but colourful, optimistic, drug induced, contentless, formless, thoughtless, uncreative, crappy but dappy, uncool, massive explosion, screaming, creamy, smooth, fill your heart with joy painting

"The part of Damien's Brixton studio dedicated to making beautiful spinning paintings is a possibly unwitting paradox of this kind of purist ethos: floor and walls and furniture awash in angsty, patinating, painterly-looking paint. The atmosphere in the which paintings are created - less Wordsworth emotion recollected in tranquillity than kindergarten splatter fight - is reflected in titles such as this one: beautiful, beautiful, nasty, mean, heartless but colourful, optimistic, drug-induced, contentless, formless, thoughtless, uncreative, crappy but dappy, uncool, massive explosion, screaming, creamy, smooth, fill your heart with joy painting. (In: G. Burn and D. Hirst, "Damien Hirst, i want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now", London 1997, p. 11.)