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

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

- 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…

- 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 …

- Brice Marden

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

- 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…

- Brice Marden

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

- 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 …

- Brice Marden