Art Quotes by Raymond Pettibon

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.

Art

Competition

Judging

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.

Art

Creating

Giving

Raymond Pettibon

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

Art

Certain

Facts

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.

Art

Ideas

Ink

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.

Art

Compassion

Expression

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.

Art

Delusion

Limits

Raymond Pettibon

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

Art

Hate

Want

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.

Apology

Art

Mean

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.

Advantage

Art

School

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.

Art

Drawing

Goal

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Advantage

Ambition

Apology

Arms

Art

Artist

Assuming

Baseball

Basketball

Book

Car

Cartoon

Certain

Clothes

Comic

Compassion

Competition

Creating

Creative

Death Penalty

Delusion

Depressing

Directors

Done

Drawing

Expression

Facts

Feds

Film

Giving

Goal

Gun

Hate

Help Me

Helping

Home

Ideas

Ink

Issues

Judging

Kids

Knows

Limits

Lines

Mean

Mind

Nuisance

Over You

Past

Political

Rasputin

Read Between The Lines

Russia

School

Sides

Skins

Sometimes

Sports

Stand Alone

Stuck

Style

Svengali

Taste

Thinking

Too Much

Train

Tvs

Use

Used

Want

Way

Writing

Art Quotes by 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.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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