It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a … - Matthew Collings

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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Matthew Collings

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.

Calculatedly, Dumb, Highly, Imagery, Way, Wrought

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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.

Art, Immediate, Mass, Mass Culture, Sound

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

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

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