I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.
Michael Craig-MartinIn a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.
Michael Craig-MartinIn the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.
Michael Craig-MartinIt's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.
Michael Craig-Martin