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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.

Michael Craig-Martin's Popular Quotes

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

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

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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…

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I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don'…

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When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what …

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Art is more to do with observation than invention.

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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 senten…

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