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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.

Michael Craig-Martin

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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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Dublin city
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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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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 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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The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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 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 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 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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