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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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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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've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.
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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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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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At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.
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