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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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When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.
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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
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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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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 have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.
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[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.
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Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.
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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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In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.
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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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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There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.
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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.
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I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.
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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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