Latest Edward Ruscha Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

• 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'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

• 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

• 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