Top 7 Matthew Collings Quotes (2025 Update)

Matthew Collings Quote: “The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.”

1. “The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.”

Matthew Collings Quote: “What is painting today? It’s a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past...”

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

3. “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.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.”

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

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

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