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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.

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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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 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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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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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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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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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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