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 Read Quote
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. Brad Holland Read Quote
New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it’s exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames. Brad Holland Read Quote
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Brad Holland Read Quote
I don’t get ideas, I have them. The trick is to remember where I’ve put them. Brad Holland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
