Brad Holland Quotes

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• Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
• Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
• Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
• If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
• Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
• Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
• Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves…
• The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
• In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
• Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are…
• Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
• Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today,…
• I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures…
• 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 described…
• 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 in…
• Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
• Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
• Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
• The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

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