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Michael Craig Martin Inspirational Quotes (42)

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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
Michael Craig-Martin
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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.
Michael Craig-Martin
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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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I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.
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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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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 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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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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.
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Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.
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It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.
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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
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I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
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If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.
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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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It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.
Michael Craig-Martin
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