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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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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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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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I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
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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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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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