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• 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

  Art, Limits, Delusion

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004/ January 2005.

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• 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

  Art, School, Advantage

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Tvs, Film, Used

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Art, Judging, Competition

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Clothes, Car, Taste

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Drawing

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Home, Judging, Stuck

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Use, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Stand Alone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Writing, Political, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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