As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I don't refer to myself as a sculptor, but I use the word "visual artist." I prefer that, because that leaves the… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I want to create objects that will stimulate the viewer in ways that I am stimulated by these objects. Now that's an… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I don't keep up with the art world. It's out there and if I did that too much, I wouldn't get my… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Making art can be maddening at times and frustrating and not always rewarding, frequently not rewarding. But you do it because you… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
L.A. has a lot of tackiness to it, but at the same time, in that funny kind of fantasy pretentiousness, it's unpretentious… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
One of the ongoing themes of my work of interest has been the idea of the inevitably of disintegration, of entropy, constant… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, L.A. has always been kind of colonized or marginalized by New York. It still goes on to… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think at one point, a whole new younger generation of critics come in and they're really aware of zeitgeist in their… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I don't go to galleries every day because it's so rare that I like what I see. There's a lot of bad… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I can't make things I don't feel passionately about. I've never been able to. Years ago when I was going through college,… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
I want to create objects that will stimulate the viewer in ways that I am stimulated by these objects. Now that's an ideal situation… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good painting, or… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
I think we all have a tendency to have things. Even, I've noticed, people on the street collect things. So I think there's some… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
One nice thing about L.A. is that you can work here in privacy, but that also works against you because you can get forgotten… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
The idea of flux, kind of constant change, whether it be our sense of time or geological time or cosmic time. It's always there,… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
In a lot of ways, L.A. has always been kind of colonized or marginalized by New York. It still goes on to this day,… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you create problems… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
I happen to like regionalism, whatever that means. I like the idea of art that somehow specifically reflects some aspect of a community or… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and how they… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
For me, my work is pretty much a lot of my identity. I mean I live to work, basically. With money I'm able to… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
I've always seen L.A. as a giant kind of laboratory for ideas in a caldron for concepts where you can try anything you want… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
I don't refer to myself as a sculptor, but I use the word "visual artist." I prefer that, because that leaves the medium wide… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
L.A. has a lot of tackiness to it, but at the same time, in that funny kind of fantasy pretentiousness, it's unpretentious because it's… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share
