Mark Bradford Quotes

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

I wanted to be a painter.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

I just call myself an artist, really.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting.

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

I am only an artist.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.