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.
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
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
Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered. - Raymond Pettibon
Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.
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
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…
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
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 …
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
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…
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
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.
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness. - Raymond Pettibon
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
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
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…
No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone. - Raymond Pettibon
No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.
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