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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.

Michael Craig-Martin

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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.
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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 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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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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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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 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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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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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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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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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