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  • There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.

    Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
  • You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • Art is more to do with observation than invention.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

    Crazy   People   Rooms  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • You can't force yourself to be something you are not.

    Force  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

    Trying   Too Much   Way  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.

    Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
  • I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.

    Teacher   Way   Teach  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

    Art   Culture   Tradition  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.

    Regulation   Today   Kind  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything; it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

    Art   Thinking   Views  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

    Art   Worry   Horizon  
    Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
  • The 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.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

    "Michael Craig-Martin: Up close and impersonal". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2011.
  • [I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.

    Views   People   Want  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

    Pleasure   Ifs  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

    Simple   Ease   Matter  
    Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
  • When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.

    Art   Historical   Doubt  
    Source: www.artzip.org
  • For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because Expressionism is more important in the history of German art. So although it is the same history, the emphasis is different.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

    People   Easy   Values  
    Source: www.artzip.org
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