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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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 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 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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I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.
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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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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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I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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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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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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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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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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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 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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