Joe Bradley Quotes - Page 2

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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 Bradley

  Culture, Force, Not Interested

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Issues, Absolutely Nothing

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Silly, Thinking

  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 Bradley

  Art, Silly, Thinking

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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

  Joe Bradley

  Excited, Good Things, Happenings

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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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.

  Joe Bradley

  Taken, Later In Life, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 Bradley

  Mean, Reason, Should

  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.

  Joe Bradley

  Skills, Important, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Joe Bradley

  Broken, Sculpture, Spells

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• 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.

  Joe Bradley

  Book, School, Thinking

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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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.

  Joe Bradley

  Personality, Ironic, Want

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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