Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

- 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 …

- 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.

- Matthew Collings

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

- 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…

- Matthew Collings

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

- 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

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

- 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 mass culture, which …

- Matthew Collings