Billy Childish Quotes
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.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your car washed, but while you're sitting around waiting you can walk in that hallway where you look at the cars going through the window, and that could be changing exhibitions.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
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The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.
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Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
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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.
