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

--

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

Raymond Pettibon

#Art Quotes #Hate Quotes #Want Quotes

“Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it”
“Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.”
“In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.”
“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
“Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.49, Cambridge University Press
“My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.”
“Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.”
“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.”

You may also like:

David Shrigley
Visual artist
Edward Ruscha
Artist
Elizabeth Peyton
Painter
Greg Ginn
Guitarist
Henry Rollins
Musician
John Baldessari
Artist
Keith Morris
Singer-songwriter
Michael Craig-Martin
Artist
Richard Prince
Painter