When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things. — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter. — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there. — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell. — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fresh air. But these… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people. — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
“I am always in a state of Eunoia. And I'm not in it just for the vowels.” — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
