Joe Bradley Quotes

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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 Bradley

  Thinking, Space, Entering

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

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• I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

  Joe Bradley

  Thinking, Looks, Painting

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

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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 Bradley

  Artist, Thinking, Feelings

  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 Bradley

  People, Anxiety, Different

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

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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 Bradley

  Eye, Bars, Television

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

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

  Joe Bradley

  Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 Bradley

  Art, Issues, Painting

  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 Bradley

  Thinking, Names, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

  Joe Bradley

  Unique, Thinking, Viewpoints

  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 Bradley

  Moving, Painting, Rough Times

  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 Bradley

  Landscape, Paint, Turns

  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 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 Bradley

  Motivation, Fall, Thinking

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

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• You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Wrapping Up, Painting

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

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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 Bradley

  Thinking, Giving, Cooking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Joe Bradley

  Fundamentals, Might, Internet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

  Joe Bradley

  Fall, Thinking, Easy

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

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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.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Culture, Painting

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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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 Bradley

  Rooms, Painting, Moments

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

  Joe Bradley

  Technology, Oil, Painting

  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 Bradley

  Taken, Thinking, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

  Joe Bradley

  Different, Painting, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Joe Bradley

  Voice, People, Interesting

  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 Bradley

  People, Giving, Levels

  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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