"In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission……" — Brad Holland
"In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls."
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20 Quotes by Brad Holland
Brad Holland has 20 quotes on this site.
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Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of…
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Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off…
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Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
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If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
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Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important…
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence,…
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The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
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In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people…
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Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
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Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing…
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More Aristocratic Quotes
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one of 51 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're…
— Margaret Atwood
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
— Richard Cobden
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Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing…
— Rose Bird
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Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists…
— Eugene V. Debs
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome,…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting…
— Howard Zinn
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love…
— David Brooks
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the…
— Theodor Herzl
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