It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.
Michael Craig-MartinOften people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.
Michael Craig-MartinI am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
Michael Craig-MartinThe Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not.
Michael Craig-MartinIf things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
Michael Craig-MartinWhen I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.
Michael Craig-Martin