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Quote by Edward Ruscha

“People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.”

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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

“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.”

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“I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.”

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Author:Edward Ruscha

“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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