Edward Ruscha quotes

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets. (Edward Ruscha)
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings. View quote
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I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.' View quote
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I am not a big fan of meaning. Logic is also another nebulous thought. I attempt to bring threads of subjects, however shaggy, to my work and inject little suggesters to the picture itself, and this often puts a smile on my face. View quote
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I'm dead serious about being nonsensical. View quote
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours. View quote
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Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic. View quote
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I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical. View quote
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I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled. View quote
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I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object. View quote
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As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work. (Edward Ruscha)
I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A. View quote
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I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration. View quote
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People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland. View quote
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Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people. View quote
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I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did. View quote
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I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate. View quote
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When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. View quote
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My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic. View quote
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The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen. View quote
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Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written. (Edward Ruscha)
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. View quote
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I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology. View quote
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Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time. View quote
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I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it. View quote
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