“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”
Billy Childish (1959) British musician
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
From The Stuckist Manifesto, (1999) co-written with Charles Thomson
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
From The Stuckist Manifesto (1999) co-written with Billy Childish
“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”
Billy Childish (1959) British musician
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
From The Stuckist Manifesto, (1999) co-written with Charles Thomson
“I am not an artist just someone who paints.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) British visual artist
Interview tapes Cotton & Mullineux
“The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.”
Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) American writer and art critic
Source: Art & Other Serious Matters, (1985), p. 191, "Saul Steinberg"
Pricasso (1949) Australian painter
[Whitsunday Times staff, Comedy night a week away, Whitsunday Times, Airlie Beach, Australia, 3 May 2012, APN Newspapers Pty Ltd.]
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Sandra Seacat (1936) American acting teacher and actress
As quoted in "Laura Dern: a Hollywood old-timer at 37" http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-08-23/features/0408230242_1_laura-dern-blue-velvet-citizen-ruth by John Anderson, in The Baltimore Sun (August 23, 2004)
“Artist should be left alone to paint or not to paint, write or not to write.”
A.R. Ammons (1926–2001) American poet
Paris Review interview (1996)
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) French painter
Quote in an open letter ('Credo'), (Paris, end of December 1861), published in the 'Courier du Dimanche', (addressed to prospective students); as quoted in Letters of Gustave Courbet, transl. & ed. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, University of Chicago Press 1992, pp. 203-204
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