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Matthew Collings

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

Art, Artist, Bray, Writers, Writing

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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.

Art, Mass Culture, Skills, Aims, Produce

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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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).

Successful, Color, White, Area, Damien

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

Art, Subject, Think, Thinking, Transforming

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

Misunderstood, Painful, Thing, Understanding

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