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Michael Craig-Martin Quotes: If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.
         

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.


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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 thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.



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I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.



You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!



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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.



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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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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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Art is more to do with observation than invention.



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.

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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