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There is a reason installations list the materials they're made of in the title card.

Take a work like Love Remembered [1] this could have been easily created using actual pills but making the piece with actual pills is a completely different work of art than painstakingly sculpturing a representation of real pills. The same way Crematorium [2] could have been recreated using sculptured cigarette butts and a synthetic smoke smell but it wouldn't be the same experience as walking up to the piece and about a meter or so away the stale stench of smoke hits you (the piece genuinely reeks) and knowing that it's real stale cigarettes.

[1] http://www.damienhirst.com/images/hirstimage/DHS6220DtlL1_77...

[2] http://www.damienhirst.com/images/hirstimage/DHS469rt1_771_0...