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…

- 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.

- Raymond Pettibon

Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.

- Raymond Pettibon

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

- Raymond Pettibon

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 liter…

- Raymond Pettibon

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 …

- 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…

- 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 a…

- Raymond Pettibon

No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

- Raymond Pettibon