54 Quotes by Ralph Steadman

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

What God did not do is invent our EGO.

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

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

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.