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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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 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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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.
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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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 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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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.
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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 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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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.
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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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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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.
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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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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] 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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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 person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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