Latest Brice Marden Quotes from Interviews

• I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

  Brice Marden

  Art, Practice, Chinese

• You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you can nowadays. But it's an endeavor.

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  Way, Dentist, Endeavor

• I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

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  Teacher, Thinking, Careers

• These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.

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  Art, Believe, School

• I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.

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  Jobs, New York, Teaching

• I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.

  Brice Marden

  Artist, Thinking, Long

• Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

  Brice Marden

  Drawing, People, Culture

• I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems to be the feedback, but that's hard to interpret.

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  Artist, Thinking, Long

• I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go.

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  Letting Go, Thinking, People

• I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

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  Believe, Abstract, Painter

• Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

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  Independent, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

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  Thinking, Saws, Hats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.

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  Running, Symphony, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.

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  Art, Matter, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

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  Artist, Needs, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

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  Couple, Pot, Smoke

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.

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  Drinking, Smoking, Cigarette

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.

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  Long, Movement, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

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  Art, Certain, Western

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

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  Artist, Trying, Portraits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love the healthy exchange of information.

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  Healthy, Information

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

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  Cities, Ideas, Hitchhiking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.

  Brice Marden

  Dream, Sleep, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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