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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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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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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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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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 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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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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In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.
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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 had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
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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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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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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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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 am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
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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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