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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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.
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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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As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
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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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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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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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'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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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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 was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.
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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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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.
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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.
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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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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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There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.
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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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