Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can’t do it any other way. Billy Childish Read Quote
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 play the silence. Billy Childish Read Quote
I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly. Billy Childish Read Quote
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 ‘Spiral Scratch’ by the Buzzcocks, or ‘Hippy Hippy Shake’ by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background. Billy Childish Read Quote
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh’s life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable. Billy Childish Read Quote
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. Billy Childish Read Quote
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 Read Quote
People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion. Billy Childish Read Quote
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 seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, ‘A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards’, is apt in these days of witless chancers. Billy Childish Read Quote
