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Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
Michael Craig-Martin
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
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
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
Michael Craig-Martin
As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
Michael Craig-Martin
At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.
Michael Craig-Martin
'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.
Michael Craig-Martin
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
Michael Craig-Martin
[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.
Michael Craig-Martin
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
I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
Michael Craig-Martin
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
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
