Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.
Brice MardenThe possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.
Brice MardenI'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.
Brice MardenBeing an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
Brice Marden