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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.

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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Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.
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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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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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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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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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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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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 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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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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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 great grandmother was Chinese .
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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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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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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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