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Painting Quotes by Joe Bradley
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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 that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're…
- I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to…
- Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.
- Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic.…
- The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting…
- When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television…
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- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat