“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.” ArtDoneOne ThingStyleBecomingSceneStandardsDrawingAspirationCollectionsPunkCartoonEditorials Author:Raymond Pettibon
“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.” ArtStillsCarePurposeArtistGoalMy OwnPaintingDon't CareDrawingPunkTemperament Author: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 but they would never be in commercial direction.” ArtSchoolCertainAdvantageCommercial ArtArt Making Author: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 knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.” ShouldLooksArtArtistDirectorsExtremesShouldersOver YouArt DirectorKnuckleheads Author: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 to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.” WayShouldArtI CanIdeasCan DoPaintBrushesInkConstraintsGreat Idea Author: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 more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.” KnowsArtI CanCan DoLimitsCapableArt IsDelusionGrandiose Author: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 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.” WorldMeanArtReasonInterestAttentionEconomyCallingNo ReasonConventionsApologyTransparentArt WorldVested Interests Author:Raymond Pettibon
“I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.” WantArtHateViolence Author:Raymond Pettibon
“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.” KindArtCompassionExpressionMake SenseLove And CompassionExpressing Love Author: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.” HumansArtSometimesDangerousHuman NaturePositionJudgingCriticismCompetitionGood ThingsThreatBe GoodPeersAway From YouJealouslyRancorJudging You Author:Raymond Pettibon
“Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.” ArtFactsCertainHappenedWitness Author: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 the freedom to do that.” GivingKindArtUniverseWishFantasyCreatingGive MeFulfillmentTherapeuticFantasy Life Author:Raymond Pettibon
