Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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

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