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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 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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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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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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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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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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 trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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 had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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