"For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Mark Bradford

#Hell Quotes #Rings Quotes

“I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.”
“I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.”
“All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.”
“Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.”
“Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.”
“Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.”
“Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”
“Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.”

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