"People could live very happily without the Turner……" — Billy Childish
"People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion."
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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 Communication Quotes
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
— Malcolm Arnold
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
— Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
— Erykah Badu
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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