"I guess I have no motivation to make……" — Joe Bradley
"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 fall into a sort of pastiche."
—
Joe Bradley
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
33 Quotes by Joe Bradley
Joe Bradley has 33 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work…
-
I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like…
-
I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking…
-
I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying…
-
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…
-
I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me…
-
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think…
-
A picture can be funny and also weep inducing. One cries for many reasons. The state of weeping, for me,…
-
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…
See all 33 quotes by Joe Bradley »
More Abstract Quotes
This quote is filed under Abstract Quotes,
one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
-
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
-
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
-
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
-
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
-
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
-
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
-
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
-
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
-
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
-
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
-
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
See all 741 Abstract Quotes »