“I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.” ThinkingTryingArtistWeekSixPaidStudios 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 have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensDoneUsePastPracticeImpossiblePaintingComputerAidsDrawingScalesPlanningColourTransformedStampsComposingInstallationPostagePostage Stamps Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“There was something really wonderful about being able to feel confident about doing my first exhibition in China, that people would have no trouble recognising the images and understanding my work. I also have a lot of freedom in the way I use colour, and I think that kind of freedom in colour is also understandable in every culture.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsFirstsKindUseAbleCultureUnderstandingWonderfulTroubleChinaColourExhibitions 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 think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John Moores Painting Prize and that was very interesting for me, because some of the judges are Chinese and some are British, and we look at the work together. It was fascinating that most of the time we were in complete agreement, but some of the time we were not. People send their works from all over China. For a foreigner, this gave me a very good picture about what is happening in China and its art today.” PeopleThinkingLooksArtImportantTodayTogetherInterestingPaintingJudgingHappeningsVery GoodChinaBritishChineseFascinatingAgreementWorking TogetherPrizeVery InterestingForeignersExhibitionsShanghai Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.” ThinkingCultureInfluenceSurfaceVery Deep Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.” ThinkingLooksArtSometimesObviousWorks Of Art 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
“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.” PeopleThinkingEnoughTakenRemainsThese Days Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.” ThinkingWorldArtFactsArtistViewsMaterialsAvailablePoint Of View Author: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.” ThinkingToo MuchApproachGuidesReferring Author:Michael Craig-Martin
