"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

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“Men are immortal till their work is done.”
“Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.”

Source : "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain"". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.
“Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?”

Source : "News is bad for you - and giving up reading it will make you happier" by Rolf Dobelli, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.
“If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.”
“If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.”
“My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.”
“I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.”
“One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.”

You may also like:

Charles Bukowski
Poet
Chris Ofili
Painter
Damien Hirst
Artist
Graham Coxon
Musician
Holly Golightly
Singer-songwriter
Peter Doig
Painter
Tracey Emin
Artist
William S. Burroughs
Novelist
Liam Howlett
DJ