"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"No title (Sex with Nancy)" (1985)
"No title (Sex with Nancy)," 1985
Ink on paper, 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Photo by Joshua White
Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Ink on paper, 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Photo by Joshua White
Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles
"You’d really have to go back to the Greeks and the Romans and to the satire or the very personal kind of rancor that they wrote about people of the day to see what I'm doing. The pretentious, the powerful, the decadent and the corrupt. It's not done from analyzing their positions and correcting them or weighing in your own solutions, because it's not the kind of form that works."
- Raymond Pettibon
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