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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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 was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.
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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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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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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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 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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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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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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[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 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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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