“I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.” Quote by Michael Craig-Martin
“As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.” IdeasUseArtistCultureStylePeriods 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
“If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.” IfsTryingShareTraditionCopies Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.” PastCulture Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.” PeopleValuesEasy Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.” IfsPleasure Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.” Important 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
“The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.” PersonsAdmireBeing TrueHonourBe True To YourselfTrue To Yourself Author:Michael Craig-Martin