It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. … - Raymond Pettibon

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Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

Raymond Pettibon

It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.

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Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

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Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

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

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Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment. . . o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

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What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.

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