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Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford
American Artist
Born: 1961
Always Life Me People Think You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
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
Community Think Neighborhood Colonization Bother Am Being Wherever Not Interested Interested Fully Why Why Bother Present
I figure if you have one person that loves you, that's enough, growing up. You just need one person in your corner. Mark Bradford
You Corner Enough Up Person Just Loves Your Figure Growing Growing Up Need
I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions. Mark Bradford
Art You Inside Container Look Questions Get Ask
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination. Mark Bradford
Man Book Mother Reading Believe Imagination Supermarket No Reason Picked Opened New Became Doing Up New Thing Stand Reason Whole Actually Thing Started Started Reading Thirteen
I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life. Mark Bradford
Life Education Change Way System Through Fell Still Educational Holes
The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another. Mark Bradford
People Group Interstate Borders Angeles Economic Another Los Los Angeles West South North Racial Create
I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo. Mark Bradford
Me You Mother Looking Nothing Everything Would Details Small Inspired Supported She Make Answer Always Been Intensely Wander Polo Ask Really
In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly. Mark Bradford
Life You Change Looking Depend Everything Neighborhoods City Details Constantly Some Observing Around Always Your
Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.' Mark Bradford
Me People Mark Say Tell Color Generally Like Still Yes Get Room Might Ask Painter Card Cards
I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way. Mark Bradford
People Free Nation Live Society Way Visit Run More Never Like Without Expected Being Anywhere Room Choose Figured Who Suddenly Belong Belonged
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
Thought Everything Gaze Hood Out See Through Head Abstract Absurd Idea Come Make Narrative Real Get Oftentimes Place Paintings Base Away Twist
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
Walk Down Intrigued Inside Outside Content Buildings Always Go Been Very Just Street Watching

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