Ralph Steadman quotes

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. (Ralph Steadman)
Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more. View quote
Ralph Steadman
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. View quote
Ralph Steadman
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. View quote
Ralph Steadman
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties. View quote
Ralph Steadman
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. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. View quote
Ralph Steadman
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. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth. (Ralph Steadman)
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved. View quote
Ralph Steadman
I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Don't write, Ralph. You'll bring shame on your family. ' -- Hunter S. Thompson. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Where is Winnie the Pooh without it's illustrations? View quote
Ralph Steadman
Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice. View quote
Ralph Steadman
By this time trapped inside the drug's reverie I could have sprayed out Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A yacht would be a beggar's handcart by comparison. View quote
Ralph Steadman
I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had. View quote
Ralph Steadman
We thought that we had suffered all our wars and now we could enjoy a time of peace and tranquillity. However, people never learn and a newer type of war was to envelope us. We seem doomed to repeat all our mistakes and find that we are being groomed, and doomed, by the legions of war, Odin's messengers, who would have us believe that aggression is the only way forward. Now we live in a war zone, the entire world. View quote
Ralph Steadman
It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife. View quote
Ralph Steadman
I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head. (Ralph Steadman)
Maybe he is the Mark Twain of the late twentieth century. Time will sort the bastard out and I leave it to others more qualified than me to assess and appraise his monumental literary legacy. View quote
Ralph Steadman
At least my mural of Leonardo da Vinci still exists on the wall of their offices, which were subsequently taken over by Expedia. They had the wall insured. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. View quote
Ralph Steadman