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.
If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context. - 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.
- Michael Craig-Martin
I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary. - Michael Craig-Martin
I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.
I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide. - 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.
The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone. - Michael Craig-Martin
The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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'… - Michael Craig-Martin
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'…
When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what … - Michael Craig-Martin
When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what …
If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the… - Michael Craig-Martin
If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the…
Art is more to do with observation than invention. - Michael Craig-Martin
Art is more to do with observation than invention.
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like senten… - Michael Craig-Martin
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like senten…
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