Collings Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing wrong with looking one way while the world looks another. Imagine if this whole time, we've been looking at it wrong. — Travis Barker

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood. — Matthew Collings

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. — Matthew Collings

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. — Venerable Bede

Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light. — George Polya

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

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow. — Russell Crowe

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays. — Dimebag Darrell

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies? — Joyce Meyer

Stop being so ... "
"Charming?Attractive?Irresistible?
"I'm going with arrogant. — Rachel Caine

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives. — Peter Kreeft

Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's working. The overall balance is right. Balance shouldn't be confused with design. There has to be restless jostle and aggression and a bit of dynamism, not just pat-ness or settled-ness or immediate pleasing-ness. — Matthew Collings

Fear fed on ignorance, just as ignorance fed on fear. The great truths were always circular. — Michaelbrent Collings

There was sex where you were looked in the eye and beautiful things were said to you, and then there was what Ira used to think of as yoo-hoo sex: where the other person seemed spirited away, not quite there, their pleasure mysterious and crazy and only accidentally involving you. "Yoo-hoo?" was what his grandmother always called before entering a house where she knew someone but not well enough to know whether they were actually home. — Lorrie Moore

It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir," replied Porthos ... "and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face. — Alexandre Dumas

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player. — David Crosby

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

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo. — John Collings Squire

In all three cases, the person makes a higher income than does Mrs. Rule. Yet none is a millionaire. In fact, Mr. Petersen, the marketing manager, has zero invested in stocks. He never invests any of his income. But he lives in a $400,000 home that is surrounded by others in the high-tech field who have big hats and bigger mortgages, but no cattle. Too many high-income/low-net worth types live from paycheck to paycheck, fearing a sudden downturn in our economy. OUR — Thomas J. Stanley

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. — Matthew Collings

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells — Haruki Murakami

Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills. — Dylan Penn

Mathematics is the music of reason. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion - not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be alive, damn it. — Paul Lockhart

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). — Matthew Collings

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past ... — 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. — Matthew Collings

Humans crave the comfort of company when in the darkness. Not darkness of vision, which they have trained themselves over long centuries and millennia to endure and overcome. But the darkness of soul. The darkness of spirit which cries out for help, for assurance that there is brightness in the dark, even if that brightness is only the spark of another human life. For where there is life there is always a small measure of hope. — Michaelbrent Collings