Raymond Pettibon

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…

— Raymond Pettibon

There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own…

— Raymond Pettibon

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and…

— Raymond Pettibon

There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because…

— Raymond Pettibon

Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why.

— Raymond Pettibon

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much…

— Raymond Pettibon

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

— Raymond Pettibon

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

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

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

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

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

I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting…

— Raymond Pettibon

What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my…

— Raymond Pettibon

I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take…

— Raymond Pettibon

When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms.

— Raymond Pettibon

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

— Raymond Pettibon

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I…

— Raymond Pettibon

In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever…

— Raymond Pettibon

Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.

— Raymond Pettibon

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

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic…

— Raymond Pettibon

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that…

— Raymond Pettibon

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

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