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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.

Michael Craig-Martin

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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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 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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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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[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.
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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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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