Quotes by Michael Craig-Martin

Michael Craig-Martin

‘Understanding’ art is like having a sense of humour – if you don’t have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

Art

Humor

Laughter

[I] don’t want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I’d rather stay as neutral as possible.

People

Views

Want

All the basic information should be in the object itself.

Information

Objects

Should

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

Art

Invention

Observation

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

Artist

Ideas

Style

For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because Expressionism is more important in the history of German art. So although it is the same history, the emphasis is different.

Art

Different

Important

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can’t.

Artist

I decided I should use the most obvious colours – the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don’t distort the objects, I don’t change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.

Names

Opposites

Simple

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.

Artist

Thinking

Trying

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.

Black And White

Drawing

Wall

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Chinese

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Different

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Doors

Drawing

Ease

Easy

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Feels

Focus

Force

Grandmother

Great Grandmother

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Quotes by Michael Craig-Martin

Michael Craig-Martin

‘Understanding’ art is like having a sense of humour – if you don’t have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

[I] don’t want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I’d rather stay as neutral as possible.

All the basic information should be in the object itself.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because Expressionism is more important in the history of German art. So although it is the same history, the emphasis is different.

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can’t.

I decided I should use the most obvious colours – the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don’t distort the objects, I don’t change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.

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.

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.

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