Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings'… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
