Top 40 Brice Marden Quotes
#1. I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.
Arne Glimcher
#2. 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
#3. Once you marry me, none of it is a lie," he pointed out. "It will be exactly as though you've told the truth all these years."
"Except for the part where we love each other."
He shrugged. "That's a minor detail. Love is just a lie people tell themselves.
Tessa Dare
#4. A work of art is a renewable source of energy.
Brice Marden
#5. There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.
Bryant McGill
#6. 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.
Brice Marden
#7. 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.
Brice Marden
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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.
Brice Marden
#12. I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.
Brice Marden
#13. One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#14. I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.
Brice Marden
#15. The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.
Brice Marden
#16. 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.
Brice Marden
#17. I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
Brice Marden
#18. 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.
Brice Marden
#19. To love, to support each other in every step we take leads us to reach the mature growth.
Euginia Herlihy
#20. People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!
Sean Connery
#21. Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
Brice Marden
#22. 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.
Brice Marden
#23. Lesson learned: bad things happen to good people.
Amy Zhang
#24. 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.
Brice Marden
#25. ...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.
Eve Chase
#26. 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.
Brice Marden
#27. A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.
Brice Marden
#28. Do not anger for your enemies use cold fire to kill them by mind.
Prashant Chauhan
#29. Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.
Brice Marden
#30. I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
Brice Marden
#31. 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.
Brice Marden
#32. But an apology too - you think you're giving something, but you're not. You're really asking for something. You're asking for forgiveness, you're asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
Deb Caletti
#33. She returned to Boston in April, during the break after the Lent term, a diamond ring from Roger concealed on a chain beneath her sweater, and this made her feel dipped in a protective coating from her family.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#34. Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.
Brice Marden
#35. 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.
Brice Marden
#37. 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.
Brice Marden
#38. I will fight for America till the day I drop.
Don King
#39. I love the healthy exchange of information.
Brice Marden
#40. Western art has a certain relationship to nature.
Brice Marden
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