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“Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.”
Source : Brice Marden (1978). “Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York”
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“I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.”
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“Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.”
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“The next step in sculpture is motion.”
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“If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.”
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“I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.”
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“You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest”
Source : L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt