I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents. — 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 Image
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — 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
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 the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
