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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.

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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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