All Edward Ruscha Quotes
- 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
- 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… Airport
- 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… Book
- Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York. Anxiety
- Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets. Artist
- When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a… All
- The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was… Any