The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing … - Joe Bradley

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A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all. . . but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.

Joe Bradley

The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.

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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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