Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture … - Matthew Collings

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I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.

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.

Art, Mass Culture, Skills, Aims, Produce

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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).

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

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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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The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

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