All Edward Ruscha Quotes
- 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… Any
- The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. Angeles
- Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?' Art
- As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work. Artist
- 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… Access
- All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. All
- I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology. Any
- I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something. American
- I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it. Agenda
- I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration. Come Away
- 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… Been
- I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A. Captivated
- 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… Displaying
- People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland. Been
- 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… Age
- When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. Goes
- 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… All
- 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.… Ago
- 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… Art
- 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… Any
- 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… Angeles
- 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… Deserve
- 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.… All
- 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… Always Fixing
- 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 not that I… Changed