68 Quotes by Brad Holland

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

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.

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 some real event as being 'just like a movie.'

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

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

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.

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.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.