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27 quotes by Edward Ruscha

Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (roo-SHAY; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California.
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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... →

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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 drive, it's... →

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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... →

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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!... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

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

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

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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 things I'd been... →

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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 it to people.

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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.

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