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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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 think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.
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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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'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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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