This is a terrific interview of Marden. Unfortunately, something about the embed isn´t functioning… so click through and watch. …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/11/07/via-brice-marden-abstract-painting-can-take-you/
Brice Marden
“The painting’s world is only explicable in the sense that it is what you’re looking at. That actual experience is happening to you as you look at the painting. That’s why painters make paintings: to have you be in that place.” -Brice Marden, Cold Mountain …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/05/10/the-paintings-world-is-only-explicable-in-the/
“How you look at a painting physically is very important. A good way to approach a painting is to look at it from a distance roughly equivalent to its height, then double that distance, then go back and look at it in detail whwere you can begin to answer the questions you ’ve posed at …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/05/10/how-you-look-at-a-painting-physically-is-very/
“The artist’s vision is not something that exists, that you know. If you know it and you keep doing what you know, it becomes a familiar road over which you travel until it ceases to be interesting. Instead, with every step toward the vision, questions arise and you pursue those …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/05/10/the-artists-vision-is-not-something-that-exists/
“To be an artist is not about making individual works. To be an artist is to do your work and let your work express the evolution of a vision. It’s a continuous process for which there is never any full, unqualified reward. You don’t get something done and say, ‘oh, …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/05/10/to-be-an-artist-is-not-about-making-individual/