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

~Brad Holland

Topics: America Art Art Form Consider Form Hobby Literature Most Movies Only Painting People Popular Schoolwork Truly

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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: Artist Asset Each Each Year Lost Many Modern Most Reported Stolen Style Styles Valuable Why Year

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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: Artist Blue Blue Jeans Bohemian Country Dream Every Fifty Getting Half Jeans Out People Seen Sneakers Today Wearing Years Years Ago

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

~Brad Holland

Topics: Agree Art Cliches Expresses Political Propaganda Unlike Which You

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Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

~Brad Holland

Topics: Art High High School Imitates Life School

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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: About Artists Cliches Culture Cultures Eager Embrace Know Never Nothing Often Own Understood Who Why

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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: Art Artists Because Come Compromise Contradictions Democracy Democratic Democratic Society Fact Ideal Many Postmodern Society Trying

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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.

~Brad Holland

Topics: About Bored Cartoons Church College Could Day Decided Glass Go High High School If I Could Junior Junior High Magazines Me One Day Quit School Selling Stained Staring Start Suddenly Things Thinking Want Windows

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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.'

~Brad Holland

Topics: Art Blue Class Drawing Evening Getting Grade Hot Kids Ninth Other Other Kids Post Rejection Saturday Slips Were

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

~Brad Holland

Topics: Get Ideas Put Remember Them Trick Where

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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