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 kind of talk to you, and also the process of making art, getting back to that… — 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 has its own realm. It's like when you say "The Arts," those are all the arts, dance, theater,… — 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
