Edward Ruscha
Edward Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IVis an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth16 December 1937
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
art thinking years
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.
fall thinking people
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.
cities people mind
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.
taken california knowing
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.
real cities heaven
I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.
paris romance london
I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.
believe people starbucks
People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.
new-york anxiety would-be
Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.
flower boss utterance
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.
anxiety modern-life speed
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
real want way
Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.
media may kind
I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.
country art fun
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.
differences years age
The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.