Edward Ruscha Quotes About Los Angeles

Quotes about: Los Angeles

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

  Edward Ruscha

  Anxiety, Modern Life, Speed

• 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

  Cities, People, Mind

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

• 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. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

  Edward Ruscha

  Taken, California, Knowing

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

• I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or Asia, I find myself disoriented. I'm not so inspired by their culture as much. It's not going to really come out in my work. I would be more influenced by what somebody from America does - like a sign painter from Pennsylvania.

  Edward Ruscha

  Europe, America, Pennsylvania

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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