“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 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.” IfsWantEndsDependsJokesDrawingDefinedNarrativeCartoonPunchlines Author:Raymond Pettibon
“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.” StyleObviousDrawingComic Author: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' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.” ThinkingArtistInfluenceEconomicsDrawing Author: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 lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.” IfsWritingBookLinesMy OwnSourceDrawingVersionsInstanceStolenBorrowed Author: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 it will eventually have text.” IfsWritingI CanAssumingDrawingLatent Author: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 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.” LittlesWholeActionFilmStuffSportsInterestingTalkingViolenceSceneGunBaseballDrawingPitchingBattingTalking Heads Author: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 a lot of unfinished drawings.” IfsUseMightLinesDrawingUnfinished Author:Raymond Pettibon
“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.” FirstsWantedIssuesStyleMajorsDrawsDrawingInevitableSignaturesDistinctiveFingerprints Author:Raymond Pettibon
