Raymond Pettibon Quotes
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
Quotes to Explore
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
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I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
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I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
