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Quote by Toni Onley

“You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.”

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Toni Onley, an individual with an unclear professional category, was born on November 20, 1928, and passed away on February 29, 2004. Detailed information about his life, achievements, and impact is limited. more

“I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.”

Ifs Littles Use Form Existence Break Becoming Pure Everyday Colour Detached Transcendental

Author:David Batchelor

“Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.”

Way Ideas Certain Materials

Author:David Batchelor

“The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.”

Use Materials Essentials

Author:David Batchelor

“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.”

World Looks Art Culture Sound Mass Slave Bites Superficial Art World Sound Bites Mass Culture

Author:Matthew Collings

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

Art Ideas Whole Form Art Is Useless

Author:Matthew Collings

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