Raymond Pettibon quotes
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“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.”
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“When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Raymond Pettibon, Gerald Matt, Thomas Miessgang, Edward Dimendberg, Hans-Rudolf Reust (2006). “Whatever it is you're looking for you won't find it here”, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst
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“Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Interview withMax Blagg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.
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“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.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“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 at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“It's inevitable that everyone's first drawing they draw is much like their fingerprint. It's inescapable that one has an identifiable style. It's not a major issue with me, but I never wanted to have a distinctive signature style so much.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.believermag.com
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“What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“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 or past experience.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“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.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.”
-- Raymond PettibonSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.”
-- Raymond Pettibon
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