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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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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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.
Michael Craig-Martin
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
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
My great grandmother was Chinese .
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.
Michael Craig-Martin
I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.
Michael Craig-Martin
I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
Michael Craig-Martin
[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.
Michael Craig-Martin
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
Michael Craig-Martin
