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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

Michael Craig-Martin

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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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Dublin city
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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.
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Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
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It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.
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My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.
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I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.
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Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.
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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.
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'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
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I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
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I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
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I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.
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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.
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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
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