Billy Childish Quotes

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and getting inspired.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

I treat my projects as art.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

I love cooking. I prepare kolambu, maintain the house... just like anyone else.

All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.