Edward Ruscha Quotes

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• Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Wow, Should

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• 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

  World, Sacred, Forgotten

  "Ed Ruscha's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.

  Edward Ruscha

  Believe, Intuition, Want

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• When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

  Edward Ruscha

  Book, People, Looks

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

  Edward Ruscha

  Artist, My Own

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• My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

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  Book, Interesting, Matter

  Ed Ruscha, Alexandra Schwartz (2004). “Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages”, p.26, MIT Press

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• I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

  Edward Ruscha

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nothing's changed except the dates on the newspapers. I'm in my same skin thinking the same old thoughts. 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

  Thinking, Skins, Age

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

  Edward Ruscha

  Media, May, Kind

  "Ed Ruscha on Kerouac, Social Media and Pop Culture in the 1960s". Interview with Tara Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

  Edward Ruscha

  Artist, Done, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

  Edward Ruscha

  Real, Cameras, Want

  Ed Ruscha, Alexandra Schwartz (2004). “Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages”, p.305, MIT Press

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• I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sports, Art, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Edward Ruscha

  Weakness, Heroic, Artistic

  Interview with Ossian Ward, www.timeout.com. February 12, 2008.

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• I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

  Edward Ruscha

  Tree, Cameras, Use

  Ed Ruscha, Alexandra Schwartz (2004). “Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages”, p.53, MIT Press

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• Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

  Edward Ruscha

  New York, Anxiety, Would Be

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• Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

  Edward Ruscha

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  Virginia Heckert, Edward Ruscha (2013). “Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments”, p.8, Getty Publications

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• 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 vase.

  Edward Ruscha

  Flower, Boss, Utterance

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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.

  Edward Ruscha

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

  Edward Ruscha

  Paris, Romance, London

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• 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'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Thinking, Years

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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 blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

  Edward Ruscha

  Clouds, Airports, Blue

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• People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

  Edward Ruscha

  Believe, People, Starbucks

  Interview with Ossian Ward, www.timeout.com. February 12, 2008.

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

  Edward Ruscha

  Inspiration

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• The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

  Edward Ruscha

  Anxiety, Modern Life, Speed

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• Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

  Edward Ruscha

  Artist, Survival, Streets

  Ed Ruscha, Alexandra Schwartz (2004). “Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages”, p.254, MIT Press

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