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Joe Bradley, born in 1975, is an accomplished artist from the United States. His works are renowned for their unique style and profound insights into contemporary social issues.

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“I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking - different flavors and different ingredients. Sometimes I think of it like orchestrating a piece of music with all the different instruments.”

Thinking Way Giving Different Sometimes Roles Pieces Instruments Cooking Different Ways Ingredients Flavor Different Day

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“I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.”

Thinking I Can Feelings Artist Painting Sculpture Handful

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“Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting then it must be serious. I think Picasso can be hilarious, to name one example.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Names Example Painting Serious Comfortable Sense Of Humor

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“A picture can be funny and also weep inducing. One cries for many reasons. The state of weeping, for me, is induced by recognition of a rarified level of integration - thinking about what must it have taken to reach that integration.”

Thinking States Reason Levels Taken Cry Recognition Integration Weeping

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“I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.”

Thinking Painting Projects Unique Opposing Viewpoints

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“I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the subject - and the "how." Most attention goes to the "what," but it's the "how" that's the important part - how something is brought into being.”

Thinking Years Art Important Lasts Attention Happened Subjects Criticism Confusion

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“I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.”

Thinking World Space Painting Impression Relate Exploration Entering Inner World

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Motivation Fall Easy Painting Abstract Abstraction Abstract Painting Pastiche

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“The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?”

Thinking Shows Remember Fun Television Grew Grew Up Eras Plot Conventions Transparent

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“When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.”

Thinking Years Kind Art Two Ends Used Skins Patterns I Realized Silly Two Years Pissed Off Mellow Opinionated

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“I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.”

Thinking Book School Remember Fronts Painting High School Genuine Sculpture

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“I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.”

Thinking Years Lasts Moving Painting Anxiety Accounts

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“I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.”

Thinking Looks Kind Painting Slips Trance

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“I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.”

Thinking Fall Easy Abstraction Pastiche

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“There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.”

Thinking Art Used Skins Silly

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Born: 1975
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 38

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