Joe Bradley quotes
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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 to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.”
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“I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 art reference.”
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“I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject - and the "how." Most attention goes to the "what," but it's the "how" that's the important part - how something is brought into being.”
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“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 sort of entering into a shared space.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.
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“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 BradleySource : Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.
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“The internet might be a convenience, but it hasn't yet, for me, been a fundamental reordering. These things are supposed to be time-savers, so you have more time standing at your easel if you so choose.”
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“Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.”
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“The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.”
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“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 goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.
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“When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.
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“I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just there.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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 a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.”
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“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.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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 to do something outside your skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.”
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“There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.
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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 any anxiety to explore different avenues.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.
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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 that if it's a painting then it must be serious. I think Picasso can be hilarious, to name one example.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.
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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 well.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.
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“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 on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.”
-- Joe BradleySource : Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.
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