Brad Holland

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Brad Holland

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Brad Holland

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans…

— Brad Holland

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe…

— Brad Holland

I don't get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I've put them.

— Brad Holland

Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.

— Brad Holland

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

— Brad Holland

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

— Brad Holland

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the…

— Brad Holland

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

— Brad Holland

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring…

— Brad Holland

Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

— Brad Holland

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction…

— Brad Holland

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland