Art Quote by Billy Childish Download Open image “It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.” — Billy Childish ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Duty Duty Duty Wrong Ends Saws Wrong Wrong End
If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I think it's the duty of the artist to run away from home. I mean I think you have to go far afield to… — Sean Mathias Copy Share Image
You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision. — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“It was the artist’s duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience’s job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to work, it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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.… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love. — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work. — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner. — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly. — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
