Quotes by Joe Bradley

Joe Bradley

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

Painting

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.

Levels

Taken

Thinking

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people’s work. So it doesn’t cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

Anxiety

Different

People

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.

Artist

Feelings

Thinking

I don’t really get excited about good things happening to me.

Excited

Good Things

Happenings

I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking – different flavors and different ingredients. Sometimes I think of it like orchestrating a piece of music with all the different instruments.

Cooking

Giving

Thinking

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.

Fall

Motivation

Thinking

I love looking at sculpture, but there’s some sort of spell that’s broken with it.

Broken

Sculpture

Spells

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don’t think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

Book

School

Thinking

I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it’s interesting to look back at really early work to see that there’s some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.

Interesting

People

Voice

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Absolutely Nothing

Anxiety

Art

Artist

Bars

Book

Broken

Cooking

Culture

Different

Easy

Entering

Excited

Eye

Facts

Fall

Feelings

Force

Fun

Fundamentals

Gallery

Giving

Good Things

Happenings

Important

Interesting

Internet

Ironic

Issues

Kind

Landscape

Later In Life

Levels

Looks

Mean

Might

Moments

Motivation

Moving

Names

New York

Not Interested

Oil

Paint

Painting

People

Personality

Plot

Reason

Rooms

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Quotes by Joe Bradley

Joe Bradley

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

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.

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people’s work. So it doesn’t cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

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.

I don’t really get excited about good things happening to me.

I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking – different flavors and different ingredients. Sometimes I think of it like orchestrating a piece of music with all the different instruments.

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.

I love looking at sculpture, but there’s some sort of spell that’s broken with it.

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don’t think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it’s interesting to look back at really early work to see that there’s some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.

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