Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well… — 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
