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Quote by Edward Ruscha

“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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Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha is an influential American artist born on December 16, 1937. Known for his unique visual art style and conceptual art, Ruscha's works often explore the relationship between text, images, and urban landscapes. more

“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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Author:Edward Ruscha

“In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.”

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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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Author:Edward Ruscha

“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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Author:Edward Ruscha