"A picture can be funny and also weep……" — Joe Bradley
"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 a rarified level of integration - thinking about what must it have taken to reach that integration."
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33 Quotes by Joe Bradley
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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…
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I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like…
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I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking…
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I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying…
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There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.
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I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without…
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I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me…
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Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think…
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People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.
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I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.
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Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as…
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Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you.…
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
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