Words matter. These are the best Brad Holland Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
The truth is, we haven’t really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We’re all experiments.
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don’t.
I don’t get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I’ve put them.
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the ‘Saturday Evening Post.’
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
I didn’t want to go to college – I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they’d let me quit high school.
The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
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.
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it’s exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
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 that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
