I've always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I'll get… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
