Brad Holland Art Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

New Art follows Old Art. Comes before New Improved Art.

In the nineteenth century the camera made a realist of the man on the street. Now the computer can make anybody a desktop Cubist. Technology may or may not be destiny, but I doubt that machines will replace art any more than wheels have replaced feet.

In the next century, when art will be packaged as virtual reality software, realistic paintings will sell the way Shaker furniture does now. Shaker furniture will sell the way Van Gogh paintings do. And teddy bears owned by Elvis will come to auction only occasionally.