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

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Brice Marden
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: October 15
Artist
Illustrator
Painter
Printmaker
Tension
Holding
Painting
Together
Kind
Really
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I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.
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Western art has a certain relationship to nature.
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In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.
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When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.
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These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.
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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 how you should just look at it and react to it on your own just relax and let go.
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I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
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I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.
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When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.
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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 it. That's a big shift.
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I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.
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The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.
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I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.
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Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
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I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
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A work of art is a renewable source of energy.
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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 than I look the Western.
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I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.
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Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its own disciplines. I learned and adapted to my search. I expect nothing from you. Question the truth of anything you confront. How does it apply to yourself and the trail you are pursuing?
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