"I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back……" — Billy Childish
"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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23 Quotes by Billy Childish
Billy Childish has 23 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own…
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I like being on the margins. You work better there.
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and…
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I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.
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I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.
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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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I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
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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…
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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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I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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