Quotes by Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha

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.

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Style

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.

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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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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.

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Thinking

Years

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

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Should

Wow

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.

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Fun

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

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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.

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Use

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist – or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

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Quotes by Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist – or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

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