I guess I have no motivation ...

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it\'s easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
 Joe Bradley

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You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.
 Joe Bradley
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 the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.
 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 hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.
 Joe Bradley
Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.
 Joe Bradley
People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.
 Joe Bradley