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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.

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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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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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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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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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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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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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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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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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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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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'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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.
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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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