As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you create problems for yourself and you solve them and you create things that weren't there before. That's awfully… — 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
