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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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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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When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.
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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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'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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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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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
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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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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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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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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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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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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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