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Michael Craig-Martin Quotes: Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.
         

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.


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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.



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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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