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Billy Childish
9 quotes
“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
Also quoted by: Charles Thomson (artist)
“It has become an ongoing national joke.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From The Turner Prize manifesto (2000), co-written with Charles Thomson
Also quoted by: Charles Thomson (artist)
“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.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian, p. 21. National Museums Liverpool, 2005.
“I like being on the margins. You work better there.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
“I am angry with him but I have compassion for him. The reason I can have a relationship with him is that I don’t see him as my father but as an individual. I’m glad I didn’t murder him that day. I couldn’t have lived with myself if I had.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
“I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
“When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
“What, like Harpic?”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
“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.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02