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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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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I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.
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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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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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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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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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'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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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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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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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