Quote

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

Michael Craig-Martin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
Artist
Concept Artist
Drawer
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
University Teacher
Dublin city
Michael Craig Martin
Michael Craig- Martin
Sir Michael Craig-Martin
Never
Divided
People
Contemporary
Instance
Genuine
Understood
Painting
Conceptual
Though
Represented
Art
Division

More quotes by Michael Craig-Martin

Image
Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
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.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
Art is more to do with observation than invention.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
My great grandmother was Chinese .
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.
Michael Craig-Martin
Image
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.
Michael Craig-Martin