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.
The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone. - Michael Craig-Martin
The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
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.
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…
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'…
Art is more to do with observation than invention. - Michael Craig-Martin
Art is more to do with observation than invention.
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 …
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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