Quotes from Brice Marden

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

I love the healthy exchange of information.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.