Brad Holland

“Art is the signature of a civilization.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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