These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell. — 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 wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are… — 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… — 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 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
