56 Quotes by Mark Bradford

I am always in a state of Eunoia.And I'm not in it just for the vowels.

To me they were all equal, and without people a business was just a building.

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

My fear, until we locate them, is that they're still in the building.

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

I can go to my own opening, and the security guard will tell me that I have to go to the security entrance.