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title: "10 Artist Quotes By Matthew Collings"
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> [The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/the-whole-idea-of-ideas-in-art-is-useless-only-have-ideas-about-form/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/artists-don-t-often-know-much-about-writing-but-they-don-t-bray-so/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/i-think-with-art-you-have-to-do-a-bit-of-transforming-of-the-subject/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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> [What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/what-is-painting-today-it-s-a-discontinued-thing-discontinued-from/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/colour-can-be-the-true-main-thing-in-art-that-is-widely-valued-even/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/it-was-as-if-he-sigmar-polke-painted-his-imagery-in-a-highly-wrought/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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> [Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/art-has-knowledge-and-skills-and-to-come-to-know-them-is-to-be/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/the-art-world-is-now-a-slave-of-mass-culture-we-have-a-sound-bite/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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> [Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/without-rules-you-can-t-have-anything-but-you-don-t-want-to-just-be/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27c/matthew-collings-39650_aggression_without-rules-you-can-t-have-anything-bu_2338170.jpg)

> [Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/until-the-late-1970s-there-d-either-be-only-black-or-white-in-the/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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## More by Matthew Collings

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/until-the-late-1970s-there-d-either-be-only-black-or-white-in-the/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/the-whole-idea-of-ideas-in-art-is-useless-only-have-ideas-about-form/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/colour-can-be-the-true-main-thing-in-art-that-is-widely-valued-even/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/the-most-painful-thing-for-me-is-to-be-misunderstood/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/it-was-as-if-he-sigmar-polke-painted-his-imagery-in-a-highly-wrought/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/what-is-painting-today-it-s-a-discontinued-thing-discontinued-from/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's working. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/without-rules-you-can-t-have-anything-but-you-don-t-want-to-just-be/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/artists-don-t-often-know-much-about-writing-but-they-don-t-bray-so/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/art-has-knowledge-and-skills-and-to-come-to-know-them-is-to-be/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/the-art-world-is-now-a-slave-of-mass-culture-we-have-a-sound-bite/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

> [I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-collings/i-think-with-art-you-have-to-do-a-bit-of-transforming-of-the-subject/)

[Matthew Collings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-collings/)

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