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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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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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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't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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 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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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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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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 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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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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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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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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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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