Michael Craig-Martin

I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.

— Michael Craig-Martin

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

— Michael Craig-Martin

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always…

— Michael Craig-Martin

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what…

— Michael Craig-Martin

For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because…

— Michael Craig-Martin

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of…

— Michael Craig-Martin

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

— Michael Craig-Martin

All the basic information should be in the object itself.

— Michael Craig-Martin

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

— Michael Craig-Martin

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

— Michael Craig-Martin

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

— Michael Craig-Martin

If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.

— Michael Craig-Martin

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I…

— Michael Craig-Martin

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in…

— Michael Craig-Martin

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I…

— Michael Craig-Martin

When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because…

— Michael Craig-Martin

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part…

— Michael Craig-Martin