59 Quotes by Edward Ruscha

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

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

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.

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

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.

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.