"I liked drawing and painting, because the only……" — Billy Childish
"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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23 Quotes by Billy Childish
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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