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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.
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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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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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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 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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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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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 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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