59 Quotes by Edward Ruscha

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

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.

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

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

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.'