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As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.
Edward Ruscha
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Edward Ruscha
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: December 16
Artist
Designer
Draftsperson
Film Director
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Graphic Artist
Painter
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Printmaker
Sculptor
Omaha
Nebraska
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Edward Joseph Ruscha
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Edward Joseph Ruscha IV
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I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.
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Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.
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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.
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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.
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Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'
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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.
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People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.
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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.
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The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
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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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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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When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.
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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.
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When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.
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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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I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.
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