Comments on: Damien Hirst’s Diamond Skull Proves Art Buyers Are as Stupid as Voters http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/damien-hirst/2007/06/08/ An independent perspective on the Australian and global investment markets Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:53:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Fritz http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/damien-hirst/2007/06/08/comment-page-1/#comment-2359 Fritz Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:56:32 +0000 http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/damien-hirst/2007/06/08/#comment-2359 Haha, funny how you segue from an unarticulated judgment of Hirst as an individual into an equally limp "critique" of western society. Warhol was also a pariah until everyone woke up and recognized the fact: He is a GENIUS. A factual representation of the contemporary world...As is Damien Hirst. Haha, funny how you segue from an unarticulated judgment of Hirst as an individual into an equally limp "critique" of western society. Warhol was also a pariah until everyone woke up and recognized the fact: He is a GENIUS. A factual representation of the contemporary world...As is Damien Hirst.

]]> By: paul http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/damien-hirst/2007/06/08/comment-page-1/#comment-2318 paul Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:32:48 +0000 http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/damien-hirst/2007/06/08/#comment-2318 Hirst’s latest work is a human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds. “For the Love of God,” he calls it. [...]It cost Hirst US$28 million to make. He expects to sell it for US$100 million. [...] Is there no limit to man’s ability to make an idiot of himself? 100.000.000 $ minus 28.000.000 $ equals a profit of 72.000.000 $. That sort of profit does not spell idiot to me? Hirst’s latest work is a human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds. “For the Love of God,” he calls it. [...]It cost Hirst US$28 million to make. He expects to sell it for US$100 million. [...] Is there no limit to man’s ability to make an idiot of himself?

100.000.000 $ minus 28.000.000 $ equals a profit of 72.000.000 $.
That sort of profit does not spell idiot to me?

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