Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be… — Matthew Collings Amount Copy Share Image
The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings Art Copy Share Image
Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art… — Matthew Collings Art Copy Share Image
The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood. — Matthew Collings Misunderstood 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… — Matthew Collings Dumb Copy Share Image
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past. — Matthew Collings Happened 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… — Matthew Collings Aggression 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 Art 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… — Matthew Collings Aim 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… — Matthew Collings Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
