Painting Quotes by Brad Holland

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting…

— Brad Holland

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

— Brad Holland

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

— Brad Holland

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It…

— Brad Holland

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

— Brad Holland

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because…

— Brad Holland

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their…

— Brad Holland

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've…

— Brad Holland

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

— Brad Holland

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

— Brad Holland

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

— Brad Holland