Matthew Collings Quotes

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

Matthew Collings

#2. I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'

Angela Featherstone

#3. I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.

Karen Finerman

#4. 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.

Matthew Collings

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

Matthew Collings

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

Matthew Collings

#7. You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.

Jay McInerney

#8. 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, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).

Matthew Collings

#9. I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.

Jill Scott

#10. 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 or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on.

Matthew Collings

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

Matthew Collings

#12. 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.

Matthew Collings

#13. The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

Matthew Collings

#14. Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

Paul Giamatti