"I've never understood why artists, who so often……" — 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 cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
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20 Quotes by Brad Holland
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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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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
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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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