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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way,… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
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… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
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… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
