Edward Ruscha Quotes

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• There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist…
• The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
• Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'
• As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.
• 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…
• All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
• I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.
• I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.
• I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.
• I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.
• I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of…
• I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.
• 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…
• People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.
• 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…
• When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.
• 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…
• 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 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…
• 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…

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