Matthew Collings Inspirational Quotes (5)

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

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 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.

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.