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. Edward Ruscha Read Quote
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I’ve always had a weakness for heroic imagery. Edward Ruscha Read Quote
I don’t watch TV, so I feel like I’m left out of the American fabric or something. Edward Ruscha Read Quote
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. Edward Ruscha Read Quote
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. Edward Ruscha Read Quote
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 never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy. Edward Ruscha Read Quote
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.’ Edward Ruscha Read Quote
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. Edward Ruscha Read Quote
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. Edward Ruscha Read Quote
