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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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'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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.
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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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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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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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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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If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.
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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 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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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