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 …

- Joe Bradley

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

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

- Joe Bradley

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 m…

- Joe Bradley

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

- Joe Bradley

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

- Joe Bradley

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…

- Joe Bradley

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

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

- Joe Bradley