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Matthew Collings Quotes



Quotes by Matthew Collings - (8 quotes)

Matthew Collings - From the Colour category:

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings. (Matthew Collings)

Matthew Collings - From the Culture category:

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it – it's as immediate and as superficial as that. (Matthew Collings)

Matthew Collings - From the Ideas category:

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. (Matthew Collings)

Matthew Collings - From the Painting category:

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past... (Matthew Collings)

Matthew Collings - From the Perfection category:

Perfection is what we do. We go from work to work, thought to thought. And it's the experience of going from work to work that is the content of the work. (Matthew Collings)

Matthew Collings - From the Skill category:

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons. (Matthew Collings)

Matthew Collings - From the Understanding category:

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood. (Matthew Collings)

Matthew Collings - From the Writing category:

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. (Matthew Collings)