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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 think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
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
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
Michael Craig-Martin
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
Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.
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
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
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
For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
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
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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
You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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 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.
Michael Craig-Martin
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
Michael Craig-Martin
