Brad Holland Quotations

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

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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.

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.'

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

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.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

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

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

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.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

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.

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.

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.

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.

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

We are not a very good ball team right now. I am concerned about some things that happened during the game that need to be corrected. Like I told the team, you are never as bad as you are and are never as good as you think you are. This was certainly a wake-up call.

Since multinational giants couldn't have little pictures of red barns or weeping clowns in the lobbies of their Bauhaus buildings, Abstract Expressionism emerged as the world's most overrated form of interior decoration.

Missouri is a very well coached team and deserving of their ranking. They have an experienced team, returning many of their top lettermen from last season. In 2005, they were one catch away from a Super Regional, so this weekend will be a great test for our guys.

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

If we come up with the board, it's game over.

I distrust anyone with a slash in their job description. I've met too many actor/waiters and too many rock musician/electricians.

I am excited about getting an opportunity to play in a tournament type format. Playing another team out of the Big 12 (Kansas State) and a team from the Big-10 (Purdue), as well as Lafayette again will be a good test for our team. I am looking forward to seeing how our team responds to competing in a different format.

I'm all for trying to create more student and community interest. The team and staff were up on the main campus today promoting it. It would be great if we could get 1,000 or more people there.

It is nice to get back on the field after having our weekend series postponed. ULL will be a very well coached ball team, so it will be good to see how we match up against them.

Our kids played a whale of a game against the No. 6 team in the nation, and I told them that. But to close out a team like that you've got to finish every play, and we didn't finish on that rebound. It came too far out and to their advantage. It's the bounce of the ball sometimes.

Our team at the end of the day dug out just enough stops and boards to stop San Francisco.

Overall, I was very pleased with the way we played today. The guys could have easily packed it in being down early, but they really stepped up and showed a lot of character. Hopefully, we can build on this for the upcoming series.

It is every artist's fantasy to run things. I know personally, I'd be happiest as dictator of a small island. The problem is that romantic artists are usually too disorganized to run their own lives, let alone societies. And most societies are too sensible to let them try it.

I think this team is going to be more offensive oriented then we have been. Another of the things that I like is our depth at each position, but right now, we have to work on getting our pitching staff in place and come to the conclusion of who that will include.

That's what I am really proud about. We really overcame some adversity. I thought we came up here and did what we wanted to do. I thought we had good balance. We had five guys in double figures, and we shared the ball.

We just couldn't put the ball through the net. We had good looks.

Win and we have a two-game lead plus the (head-to-head) tiebreaker. Obviously, finishing third or fourth and getting the bye is important.

We played great defense. We held Gonzaga to 64 points. That's unheard of.

We played better today, even though the score does not indicate it. Jared (Jennings) really came in and kept us in the game. Right now, we have to find a way to get our pitching staff some confidence.

You knew they had to shoot a 3. You don't care if they drive by you. We wanted our hands high without fouling. Travis just grabbed the ball and it was game over.

We're ecstatic. We lost four in a row at the end of the regular season and we've done an outstanding job to win two straight games here to earn the right to play Gonzaga. And . ... . we . ... . are . ... . excited.

We put ourselves in position to win the game, and we closed out an opponent.

We had to get out in front again and close out a team. Now we will have more confidence.

We go down to Baton Rouge every year and are excited about going again. If we advance to a regional, this is generally the place that we play. It will be good to put our kids in that type atmosphere. Right now, we are concerned about our performance and improvement.

Corey is a better defender at this stage than Bruce was, but it's all about finding your niche in the NBA. The Spurs fell in love with Bruce because of his commitment to defense. Bruce grew up watching Michael Cooper play for the Lakers, and he used to pick my brain about what kind of player Cooper was.

Considering what we lost on the mound, I am not shocked with where we are picked. The preseason polls are more for the fans than anything, but our players can certainly use them as motivation during the season.

Ross got fouled, I promise you that. Oh, he got fouled, and it wasn't called.

Saint Mary's spoiled Senior Night last year when they had a fantastic team. This year, they're a team that is certainly playing better than they were the first part of the conference season.

Back in the prehistoric jungle, all the animals who trusted other animals got eaten. The only ones who survived to reproduce were the ones who instinctively feared everybody and bit their heads off. This explains why so many people, like artists, who trust their instincts, behave like crocodiles.

This is great exposure for James and for our institution. It was no secret that James would be on this list since he was selected in the professional draft after last year. Getting a degree was one of his main priorities and that was obvious by him being one of the few juniors in the country to turn down the money of professional baseball.

This is not what I envisioned. Obviously, with the wind blowing it was not going to be an offensive day. The only time it could be is if you gave free passes.

They shot 26 more free throws than we did. Make sure you put that in your article.

They're a better team than they were when we played them up there. They've been on a roll.

A lot of artists say they'd be happy in a classless society. But artists are often the first to deceive themselves. Put them in the kind of utopia they sentimentalize, and in no time, they would be binding their feet, lengthening their necks or flattening their heads, just to be different.

This loss was as tough as they get. We did a great job of getting it into overtime and then we ran out of gas.

It means nothing. It's just something the conference does and we very rarely end up where the conference predicts we will.

It really runs the gamut, from parking to issues with graduate students. My entire role is to help people with issues that they have, whatever they might be.

It's my guess that those cutting-edge artists who attack tradition secretly believe tradition will survive to enshrine them as the wild and crazy geniuses who destroyed it

The two teams that are playing very well right now are St. Mary's and USF.

There's time to do nothing, everything's closed. I'm just sitting around.

I'm really proud of these guys; you couldn't ask for anything more from them. Magdalena's a much older club, and our goal was to hold them under 70, and we came pretty close. We were just trying to slow them down.

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.

I couldn't be more proud of our team and how we competed in this tournament. We did everything tonight except win the game.