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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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I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
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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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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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 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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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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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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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.
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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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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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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At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.
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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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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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