Mark Bradford Quotes
I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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I'm very much a technical person.
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I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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During 2007 "Not for Sale" was born from a problem I saw in Thailand. We established a basic level of care to the community there. Over the years our effective means of response has changed to help provide people with choices for the future.
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I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.
