Mark Bradford Quotes

'The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.

There are a lot of layers to me.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents' influence on me. I've talked to a therapist,; I've looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I'm a Sagittarius. Please don't make me reveal more than that. It's tough enough as it is.

I want people to find their inner depth.

There is a very pensive and intense side to me that even I did not know someone could capture.

My life is not a sound bite.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

We are not always even what we are most.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.