Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.
Michael Craig-MartinUsually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.
Michael Craig-MartinI've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.
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