Brad Holland Quotes

• Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Art, Life

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

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Important

• 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.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Country, Dream

• 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.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wish, Violence

• 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.’

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Reality

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

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today, Black

• 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.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Often

• 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.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Art, Democracy, Society

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

  Brad Holland

  Topics in America, Art, Movies

• Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it’s stranger than non-fiction as well.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Stranger

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

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Art

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

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Art, Life

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

  Brad Holland

  Topics in America

  Tags in Artists

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

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Artists

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

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lost

• Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Myth

Brad Holland (16)

Birth:	1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Illustrator

About

Brad Holland was born in Fremont, Ohio, United States. He is a self-taught artist whose work has appeared in Time, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and many other national and international publications. Paintings by the artist have been exhibited in museums around the world, including one-man exhibitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Clermont-Ferrand, France; The Museum of American Illustration, New York City. In 1976, Holland was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by The New York Times.

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• 1909 - Nelson Algren
• 1895 - Spencer W. Kimball
• 1942 - Daniel Clement Dennett
• 1928 - Roger A. Caras
• 1930 - Robert Ashley

Deaths

• 2009 - Maurice Jarre
• 1944 - Stephen Leacock
• 1941 - Virginia Woolf
• 1953 - Valentine de Saint Point
• 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower