“In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.” IndividualAuthorityBritainAcademicIndividual FreedomAcademic Freedom Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.” PeopleThinkingNeedsArtImportantProblemBigsSchoolIndividualSpeakDifficultNumbersTeachCreativeSawsTeacherStudentsActivityMassChinaEnormousContactContinuityArt SchoolTeacher And Student Author: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.” ThinkingLooksIndividualRoomsToo MuchSummerCapacityExhibitionsIndividual Work Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“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.” IfsShouldIdeasMatterAbleIndividualDistractedCrowdedExhibitionsIndividual Work Author: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.” IndividualDifficultFocusFrontsPaintingIsolatedSculptureIndividual Work Author:Michael Craig-Martin