“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.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeI CanFormArtistMy OwnAmbitionBecause I Can 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
“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
“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
“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 I'm not the best judge of my own work.” IfsKnowsHomeHappensMy OwnJudgingStuck Author:Raymond Pettibon
