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.

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

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.

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