Quotes by Raymond Pettibon

Raymond Pettibon

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 be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.

Art

Competition

Judging

Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they’re writing about. It’s a sad state of affairs, but there’s probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

Political

Way

Writing

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 the freedom to do that.

Art

Creating

Giving

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

Art

Certain

Facts

Back in the ’80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.

Film

Tvs

Used

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 to the way I work, whether I’m using a brush with ink or paint.

Art

Ideas

Ink

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It’s expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don’t make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

Art

Compassion

Expression

I don’t drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I’d just get fed up with it.

Feds

Nuisance

Too Much

I don’t feel that I decided deliberately I’m going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

Stand Alone

Thinking

Writing

I don’t have extravagant tastes or expenses – like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

Car

Clothes

Taste

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Ambition

Apology

Arms

Art

Artist

Assuming

Baseball

Basketball

Book

Car

Cartoon

Certain

Clothes

Comic

Compassion

Competition

Creating

Creative

Death Penalty

Delusion

Depressing

Directors

Done

Drawing

Expression

Facts

Feds

Film

Giving

Goal

Gun

Hate

Help Me

Helping

Home

Ideas

Ink

Issues

Judging

Kids

Knows

Limits

Lines

Mean

Mind

Nuisance

Over You

Past

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Quotes by Raymond Pettibon

Raymond Pettibon

Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they’re writing about. It’s a sad state of affairs, but there’s probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

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 the freedom to do that.

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

Back in the ’80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.

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 to the way I work, whether I’m using a brush with ink or paint.

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It’s expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don’t make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

I don’t drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I’d just get fed up with it.

I don’t feel that I decided deliberately I’m going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

I don’t have extravagant tastes or expenses – like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

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