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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
Michael Craig-Martin
I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
Michael Craig-Martin
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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
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
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.
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 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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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
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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
I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
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
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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
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
For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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
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
You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
Michael Craig-Martin
