Edward Ruscha

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and…

— Edward Ruscha

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

— Edward Ruscha

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I…

— Edward Ruscha

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…

— Edward Ruscha

Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds…

— Edward Ruscha

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

— Edward Ruscha

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine…

— Edward Ruscha

I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or…

— Edward Ruscha

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

— Edward Ruscha

When I drive, I check out everything I see, and just taking in all those observations helps me think. So I draw…

— Edward Ruscha

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just…

— Edward Ruscha

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's…

— Edward Ruscha

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see…

— Edward Ruscha

I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you…

— Edward Ruscha

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists.…

— Edward Ruscha

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere…

— Edward Ruscha

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why…

— Edward Ruscha

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like…

— Edward Ruscha

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like…

— Edward Ruscha

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

— Edward Ruscha