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.
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 t… - Brice Marden
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 t…
- Brice Marden
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
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.
Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. - Brice Marden
Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.
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 h… - Brice Marden
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 h…
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing. - Brice Marden
Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.
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 i… - Brice Marden
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 i…
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 … - Brice Marden
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 …
Western art has a certain relationship to nature. - Brice Marden
Western art has a certain relationship to nature.
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that … - Brice Marden
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that …
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