“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.” ThinkingWayGivingDifferentSometimesRolesPiecesInstrumentsCookingDifferent WaysIngredientsFlavorDifferent Day Author:Joe Bradley
“I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.” TryingImportantReasonSeemsHappensLostPaintingSkillsVariousPhasesCompass Author:Joe Bradley
“There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.” KindDifferentPaintingConcentrationDifferent Kinds Author:Joe Bradley
“I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.” ThinkingTryingArtistNamesPartnersSolo Author:Michelle Chamuel
“Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.” PeopleMadeCertainMusic IsPopsLifestylePop Music Author:Michelle Chamuel
“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.” ThinkingI CanFeelingsArtistPaintingSculptureHandful Author:Joe Bradley
“I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.” PeopleDifferentCausesAnxietyCaughtAvenues Author:Joe Bradley
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNamesExamplePaintingSeriousComfortableSense Of Humor Author:Joe Bradley
“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.” ThinkingStatesReasonLevelsTakenCryRecognitionIntegrationWeeping Author:Joe Bradley
“People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.” PeopleGivingFormLevelsAbstractIntegration Author:Joe Bradley