Art Quote by Matthew Collings Download Open image “The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.” — Matthew Collings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Form Ideas Useless Whole
Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format. — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. — Julia Cameron 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
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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
