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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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'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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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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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