I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it … - Joe Bradley

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Looking into my future, I don't always want to be in front of the camera. I want to be behind the camera and bring to life those family members of mine or people that I knew or the kids I grew up. I want people to know the different facets of black people, brown people, all people.

Joe Bradley

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.

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A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

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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.

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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.

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

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When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.

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