Comic Quote by 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 can happen-where…

— Raymond Pettibon

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

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

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

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 from life…

— 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 gives me…

— 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 many constraints…

— 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 all the…

— 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 conventions in…

— 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 any other…

— Raymond Pettibon