Art Quote by Brice Marden

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

Brice Marden

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

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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

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

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

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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.…

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