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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.
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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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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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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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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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