Edward Ruscha Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Wow, Should

• 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

• 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 seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

  Edward Ruscha

  Country, Art, Fun

• 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

• 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

• A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so jibing, and they're clashing. But they all seem to be working in their own domain. Whereas back in the '60s, man, it was kind of a dull world. It was a vital world. But it was kind of contained and not too recognized by the public. Now art is absolutely recognized by the public.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Men, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 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

  Art, Opportunity, Rare Occasion

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. Seotember 11, 2010.

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