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 More Quotes by Edward Ruscha More Quotes From Edward Ruscha 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 people fall thinking 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 rare-occasion opportunity art 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 mind people When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. Edward Ruscha paint roots house I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something. Edward Ruscha fabric tvs watches I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology. Edward Ruscha media kind may 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 fun country art I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical. Edward Ruscha real cities heaven As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work. Edward Ruscha my-own artist 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. Edward Ruscha cartoon artist ideas The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. Edward Ruscha anxiety speed modern-life 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 people interesting thinking I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration. Edward Ruscha inspiration Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera. Edward Ruscha pollock cameras I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught. Edward Ruscha taught california dark When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings. Edward Ruscha desert painting mountain My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic. Edward Ruscha car soldier looks The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed. Edward Ruscha missing sports country Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic. Edward Ruscha europe sweet book 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 years art thinking
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