Mark Bradford Art Quotations

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

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 voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.

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