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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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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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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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 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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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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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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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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 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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I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
Michael Craig-Martin
'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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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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