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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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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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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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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.
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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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There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.
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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 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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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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 am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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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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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 great grandmother was Chinese .
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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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