Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" in English language version.
Doris Lockhart: On one of my visits to see Damien, he asked if I could lend him some money, as he said he wanted to pay to get a shark sent from Australia for one of his pieces, and he didn't have the money to get them to ship it. So I said, "Yeah, sure, how much do you need?" And I gave it to him and forgot all about it. I went back maybe a month or so later to see him, and he said, "Oh, you know that money you lent me?" I said, "I didn't lend it to you, Damien, I gave it to you." And he said, "No, no, no, no, I want to pay it back and here it is." I couldn't believe it. He was insisting I take the money and I was so impressed by that. That's one of my fondest memories of that kid, he wasn't getting millions of pounds for his paintings at that time. The thing that makes me laugh is imagining he got the money to pay me back from Charles. I mean, that really would be a good story. But anyway, I wouldn't take it. So, he said, "Okay, look around the studio and if you see something you like, take it, it's yours." Well, I couldn't turn that offer down but I didn't want to pick anything big, because I didn't want to seem greedy and horrible, because his work was starting to make money. So I picked something that I could actually carry away and I have it to this day, a piece called The Only Way is Up. If my place started to burn down, that's what I would take. Yes, I'd get my cat, but I would actually also get the work that Damien gave me.
