"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."

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Source : Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

Michael Craig-Martin

#Simple Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally....”
“The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.”

Source : "Savaging of 'seedy and cynical' TV" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2004.
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”
“Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.126, Egmont UK
“There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.”
“Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.”

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