"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."

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

Raymond Pettibon

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“Mundus vult decipi'â€”the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?”
“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
“Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?”
“I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.”
“I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.”
“Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong”

Source : Quoted in Henri Temuanka, Facing the Music (1973)
“Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.”

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