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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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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You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.
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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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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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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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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