No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone. Raymond Pettibon More Quotes by Raymond Pettibon More Quotes From 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. Raymond Pettibon comic style drawing 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. Raymond Pettibon drawing artist thinking It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like. Raymond Pettibon over-you directors art In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine. Raymond Pettibon basketball baseball kids 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. Raymond Pettibon drawing cartoon want 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. Raymond Pettibon advantage art school 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. Raymond Pettibon drawing writing book Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically. Raymond Pettibon mind 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. Raymond Pettibon competition judging art 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. Raymond Pettibon stuck judging home 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. Raymond Pettibon delusion limits art Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why. Raymond Pettibon knows Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV. Raymond Pettibon film used tvs I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever. Raymond Pettibon clothes car taste I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery. Raymond Pettibon stand-alone writing thinking 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. Raymond Pettibon drawing lines use Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers. Raymond Pettibon political writing way
