Joe Bradley Quotes

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• I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some…
• I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've…
• I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking - different flavors and different…
• I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your…
• There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.
• I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.
• I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different…
• Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting…
• A picture can be funny and also weep inducing. One cries for many reasons. The state of weeping, for me, is induced by recognition of…
• People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.
• I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.
• Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.
• Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back…
• A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.
• I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just…
• I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in…
• It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
• There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop…
• I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject…
• I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're…

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