“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.” ThinkingYearsArtDoneEnoughUseArtistWrittenWasteYears AgoMethodPossessionHad EnoughDisgusted Author:Edward Ruscha
“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.” UseTreePicksCameras Book:Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages Source: Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages
“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.” ThinkingWorldArtUsePurposeInformationFinePhotographyPhotographFine Arts Book:Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments Source: Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments
