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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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Concept Artist
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Dublin city
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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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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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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 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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If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.
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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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If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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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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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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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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 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 was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.
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