“In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.” KindMadeWantedUsedSimpleCommonObjectsReadyLateOrdinaryDrawing Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.” ThinkingMiddleObjectsPaintingSculpture Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.” TryingArtBookObjectsShoesSentencesPainterGrantedChairsTaken For GrantedTaking Things For Granted Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.” WantedCultureLanguageInterestingObjectsUniversalChinaContemporaryNew Work Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.” WayWantTryingToo MuchObjectsSimplest Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“All the basic information should be in the object itself.” ShouldInformationObjects Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.” ThinkingWorldImportantRealFeelingsModernObjectsMaterialsFamiliarSurroundAssociationIdentifyingStrandsMaterial World Author: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.” PeopleIfsWantCoursesInterestMy OwnViewsObjectsPaintingIntentionPoint Of View Author: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.” WorldLooksSeemsObjectsDrawsObviousContemporaryOur World Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.” ShouldUseNamesSimpleObjectsDrawsRedDecidedOppositesObviousColourYellowPurpleDon't Change Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.” ValuesObjectsPerceptionOrdinaryExtraordinaryPainterUsualUbiquity Author:Michael Craig-Martin
