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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.
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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'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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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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] 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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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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