Brice Marden

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

— Brice Marden

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

— Brice Marden

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

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

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to…

— Brice Marden

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought…

— Brice Marden

When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So…

— Brice Marden

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

— Brice Marden

I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was…

— Brice Marden

The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels…

— Brice Marden

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

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

— Brice Marden

I love the healthy exchange of information.

— Brice Marden

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

— Brice Marden

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

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

— Brice Marden

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a…

— Brice Marden

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

I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm…

— Brice Marden

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

— Brice Marden

I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint.…

— Brice Marden

Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on?…

— Brice Marden

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

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

— Brice Marden