@fairart.com: In this interview from 2012, Damien Hirst explains why he deliberately hired assistants without painting skills to produce his spot paintings. For Hirst, the artwork isn’t about technique - it’s about the concept. “I didn’t want people with ideas of their own,” he says. The hand becomes secondary to the mind behind it. A sharp take on authorship, control and the blurred lines between artist and maker in contemporary art.

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