68 Quotes by Brad Holland

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

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

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

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

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.'

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

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

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.