Quotes by Billy Childish - Page 1

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.
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Yoga
Health
Drinking
Practice
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Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
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Artist
Paint
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I like being on the margins. You work better there.
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I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.
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Helping
I Can
Ifs
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It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.
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Artist
Ends
Saws
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One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.
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Inability
Lying
Problem
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My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.
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Favourite
Feelings
Friendliness
Jokes
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I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
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Jobs
Dinner
Sunday
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I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.
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Home
Friendly
Ideas
Talking
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I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
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People
Perfection
Trying
Forced
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I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
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Mythology
Painting
Thinking
Unstoppable
Gogh
Van
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I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
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War
Moustache
Used
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I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.
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Different
Fields
Love Work Myself
Amateur
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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
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Communication
Emotion
People
Prize
Real
Turner
Happily
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I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
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Blank
Cds
Play
Silence
Campaign
Pair
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
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Failure
Fantastic
Knows
Way
Myself Yourself Your
Any Other Way
Express
Limitations
Meet
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A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.
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Men
Cutting
Fringe
Moustache
Mustache
Grown
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I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.
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New York
Play
Surprise
Towns
Music Always Me
Music Me New
Edge
Play Music
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We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.
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Believe
Mad
People
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I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.
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Art
Boring
Limitation
Sick
Term
Theory
Thru
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When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.
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Age
Brother
Names
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Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.
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Car
Looks
People
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I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.
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Levels
School
Tested
Tests
Failed
Exams
Falsely
Praised
Prizes
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
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Anger
Humor
Behave
Masters
Presumption
Realization
Charge
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
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Destiny
Facts
Realization
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I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
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Art
Book
Drawing
Painters
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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
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Art
Bankers
British
Challenging Work
Dull
Hero
Late
Resistance
Heroes
Apt
Authentic
Fan
Cowards
Document
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I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
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Admirer
Blue
Blue Jeans
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Jeans
Punk
Punk Rock
Rocks
Years
Background
Boil
Chopin
Flute
Hippy
Once A Year
Otherwise
Scratch
Spiral
Swinging
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Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.
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Exhibitions
Joining
Want
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We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If you go up to Newcastle, you can tell that the town's really had money, or Liverpool, you know, the northern towns have got grandeur, whereas Medway, being just a sort of garrison town and dockyard town, you don't have anything like Earl Grey Square or anything like that.
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Squares
Towns
Unemployment
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