26 Quotes by Brice Marden

Painters are amongst the priests – worker priests of the cult of man – searching to understand but never know.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.