I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint.… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older,… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up. — Brice Marden Copy Share
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden Copy Share
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing. — Brice Marden Copy Share
I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in… — Brice Marden Copy Share
You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you… — Brice Marden Copy Share
I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at… — Brice Marden Copy Share
Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a… — Brice Marden Copy Share
When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated… — Brice Marden Copy Share
I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping. — Brice Marden Copy Share
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will… — Brice Marden Copy Share
Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its own disciplines.… — Brice Marden Copy Share
