"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."

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

Raymond Pettibon

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.”
“You can't teach court savvy”
“All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.”
“The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.”

Source : Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1964). “Liberalism”, p.78, Oxford University Press on Demand
“The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.”
“Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.”
“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.”
“Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you. They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire. Love them no matter what.”

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