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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.

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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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