“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.” WorldLooksArtCultureSoundMassSlaveBitesSuperficialArt WorldSound BitesMass Culture Author:Matthew Collings
“The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.” ArtIdeasWholeFormArt IsUseless Author: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 aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.” KnowsArtTodayCultureProduceSkillsMassAimConsumingMoronMass Culture Author:Matthew Collings
“Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.” KnowsWritingArtArtist Author:Matthew Collings
“I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.” ThinkingArtBitsSubjectsTransforming Author: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.” ArtColourMakers Author:Matthew Collings
