“I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.” Quote by Michael Craig-Martin
“In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.” IdeasTeacherDefinite Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.” TeachingChangedStudentsRevolutionAuthorityLate Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.” IndividualAuthorityBritainAcademicIndividual FreedomAcademic Freedom Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.” IfsTryingUsedCreativeTeachingMethodBe Creative Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.” KindTodayBritishRegulationBureaucracy80sFlexibilityEducation System 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
“In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.” ArtSchoolNumbersStudentsPeriodsBritishContactArt School Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.” UseColourNo ConfidenceEarly Work 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
“Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.” PeoplePaintingGoes OnInstallation Author:Michael Craig-Martin