Brad Holland

“An illustrator is a translator. He is someone who translates a text into a picture.”

“To be an artist is to be a kind of amateur, a person who does something for the love of it.”

“Drawing is a form of thinking, a form of meditation, a way of ordering and understanding the world.”

“The job of the artist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.”

“All art is political in the sense that it is a comment on the human condition.”

“I think of myself as a conceptual artist. I'm more interested in the idea than the execution.”

“If you have a point of view, you're going to be a controversial figure.”

“A picture can be an argument, a question, a story, a dream, a warning.”

“The first rule of any graphic problem is to understand the problem.”

“Art is the signature of a civilization.”

“Good ideas are not hard to come by. They are everywhere. The problem is to recognize them.”

“Style is the residue of a mind that has worked its way through a problem.”

“You can’t be an artist and be a good boy.”

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

“The best work is done by people who are not trying to be great, but who are trying to be themselves.”