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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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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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Dublin city
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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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 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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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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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 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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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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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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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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