Ralph Steadman Quotes

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die.

I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.

At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships. I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.