Quotes by Billy Childish

Billy Childish

Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists.

Artist

Paint

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.

Exhibitions

Joining

Want

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.

Art

Challenging Work

Hero

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.

Car

Looks

People

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.

Fantastic

Knows

Way

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.

Levels

School

Tests

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Drinking

Health

Yoga

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.

Art

Book

Drawing

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.

Cds

Play

Silence

I’m not trying to achieve perfection. I don’t like this forced control people have over work.

People

Perfection

Trying

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Art

Artist

Blue

Book

Brother

Car

Cds

Challenging Work

Communication

Destiny

Different

Drawing

Drinking

Ends

Exhibitions

Facts

Fantastic

Fields

Health

Hero

Joining

Knows

Levels

Looks

Names

Paint

People

Perfection

Play

Real

Realization

Rocks

Saws

School

Silence

Squares

Tests

Towns

Trying

Unemployment

Want

Way

Years

Yoga

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Quotes by Billy Childish

Billy Childish

Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

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.

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.

I’m not trying to achieve perfection. I don’t like this forced control people have over work.

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