“The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.” WorldArtRoomsArt World Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“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.” WholeBlackWhiteRoomsSawsChangedWallDrawingWhole LifeColourBlack And WhiteInstallation Author: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.” LongWholeUseAbleRoomsNumbersPaintingLong TimeDecidedWork OutStudiosColourIntensityVariationPalette Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.” PeopleBigsRoomsCrazyPaintOld PeopleMagenta Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.” PeopleFirstsDifferentBigsUsedSpaceRoomsSawsNicePaintingSevenParisColourGalleryVery NiceExhibitionsDifferent Colours 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
