Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

 

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
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Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
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From The Stuckist Manifesto, (1999) co-written with Charles Thomson

 

Billy Childish

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Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time — starting with the artist — to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.

 

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Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists.

 

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Summoning artists to participate
In the august occasions of the state
Seems something artists ought to celebrate.
Today is for my cause a day of days.

 

Robert Frost

 

The arts in every field — music, drama, sculpture, painting — we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)

 

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