Fresh out of ideas  The problem is not Damian Hirst's borrowing
from others, but his own loss of originality     • The Guardian,
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Plagiarising himself ... Damien Hirst. Photograph: PA There was
a moment when the whole world was plagiarising Damien Hirst.
Films, in the 1990s, had serial killers standing with shark-like
grins inside glass vitrines. Wrapping paper came in coloured
spots. Museums became self-conscious about the surreal nature of
their collections. All this owed its fin-de-siecle vogue to a
cocky artist and his obsession with death.  If you'd asked me,
as recently as a year ago, what I thought of artist Robert
Dixon's claim that the pattern of Hirst's print, Valium, is a
spot-for-spot copy of his own design True Daisy, you'd have got
a short, rude answer. As in, who bloody cares? Hirst is the most
original artist of my generation, and I have watched his career
with admiration, awe, and irritation at the large number of
stupid things sa