Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why.
Raymond PettibonIt's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.
Raymond PettibonIf 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 PettibonThere 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