That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to Venice, and I knew that wasn't going t…

- Mark Bradford

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

- Mark Bradford

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

- Mark Bradford

Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fres…

- Mark Bradford

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

- Mark Bradford

When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things.

- Mark Bradford

I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to do more. This might be my Scorp…

- Mark Bradford

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

- Mark Bradford

My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter …

- Mark Bradford