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I have always been very intrigued by the outside of buildings. I can just walk down the street and be content with watching facades. I don’t have to go inside.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I’d always go to these certain materials. I’d always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

I don’t look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There’s a lot of slippage.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

I’m kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

I look at art as a container. You can’t get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is ‘real,’ and so I thought, ‘I’ll base it on the absurd, the not real. I’ll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I’ll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.’

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn’t have a trust fund.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that’s colonization. I’m not interested in that.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

When you’re as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

– Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we’re just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

– Mark Bradford

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