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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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 people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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 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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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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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'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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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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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'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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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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