“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.” PeopleWorldArtReasonMomentsTodayLastsDifferencesSimplePayForeverWillingShotsWorld TodayCollectorsArt World Author: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.” WorldArtHappensWorryGoes OnHorizonObscurityWhatever HappensArt WorldBeckoning Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.” WorldArtRoomsArt World 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
“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 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
“When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose writing is an extraordinary examination of emptiness. I wanted to be like Beckett. I don't have the same attitude toward the world, I'm naturally optimistic, and so of course I could never be like Beckett. You can't force yourself to become like someone you admire.” WorldWritingWantedYoungCoursesForceAttitudeStudentsExtraordinaryAdmireOptimisticEmptinessExaminationPessimisticBeckettYoung Students Author:Michael Craig-Martin
