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Brad Holland Quotes

American - Artist | 1943 -

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.

Today Blue People Artist Sneakers

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

Art Political You Propaganda Agree

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.

Truth People Mind Roots Believe

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

Life Art School High School High

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.

Day School College Me Start Church

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.'

Art Blue Evening Rejection Drawing

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

Ideas Remember Where Get Trick Them

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

Short Young Influences Your Stories

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

Walls People Rich Rich People Used

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

Art Wave New Now Museums Rage

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.

Walls People Buildings Real Off

Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

Art Bag Outside Client Commercial

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