"It's a funny semantic turn - when someone……" — Joe Bradley
"It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it."
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33 Quotes by Joe Bradley
Joe Bradley has 33 quotes on this site.
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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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A picture can be funny and also weep inducing. One cries for many reasons. The state of weeping, for me,…
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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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More Borrowed Quotes
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one of 233 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how…
— Bryan Adams
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
— Walter Benjamin
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing…
— Warren G. Bennis
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You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole…
— Dale Carnegie
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then -…
— Agatha Christie
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our…
— William J. Clinton
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
— George Steiner
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
— Theodore Beale
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
— Abraham Flexner
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
— George Santayana
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