Billy Childish

Artist

1959-12-01

Books by Billy Childish

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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.
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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.
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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
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I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
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