I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. - Matthew Collings
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
- 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 it, you get it - it's as immedi… - 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 it, you get it - it's as immedi…
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having. - 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 amount, not a large area, an… - 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 amount, not a large area, an…
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
Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.
The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood. - Matthew Collings
The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.
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 overall b… - 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 overall b…
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past. - Matthew Collings
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.
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 … - 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, by silk-screening …
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