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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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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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'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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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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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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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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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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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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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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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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