Matthew Collings Quotes

• 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

  Art, Mass Culture, Skills

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• 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

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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• I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Thinking, Transforming

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• Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).

  Matthew Collings

  Successful, Color, White

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• Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Writing, Artist

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• 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

  Art, Makers, Colour

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• The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

  Matthew Collings

  Understanding, Misunderstood, Painful

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• The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Ideas, Useless

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• Sin reglas no se puede tener nada, pero no hay que ser pedante ni obsesivo. El cuadro está acabado cuando funciona. El equilibrio general es correcto. No hay que confundir equilibrio con diseño. Tiene que haber agitación y agresividad y un poco de dinamismo, no sólo suavidad o asentamiento o placer inmediato.

  Matthew Collings

  Confused, Design, Balance

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

  Matthew Collings

  Past, Today, Serious

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• It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on.

  Matthew Collings

  Dumb, Way, Imagery

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