Mark Bradford Quotes

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Path
  • Genius
  • Beaten Path

• French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Always
  • Photographer
  • Vogue

• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • Different
  • History

• There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Women
  • Family
  • Nice

• A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Film

• Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Religion
  • Sex
  • 20th Century

• I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Life
  • Come

• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Writer

• On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Reading
  • Best
  • Self

• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
  • Happy

• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Think

• My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Water
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Interest

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• 'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Female

• I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Engineers

• Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Time
  • Way
  • Right

• It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.

  

  Miuccia Prada
  • Feminine
  • Masculine

• I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Always
  • Never
  • Down

• I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Always
  • Artist
  • Stuff