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1. "People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland." ~ Edward Ruscha
2. "The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy." ~ Edward Ruscha
3. "All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery." ~ Edward Ruscha
4. "As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work." ~ Edward Ruscha
5. "I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology." ~ Edward Ruscha
6. "I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something." ~ Edward Ruscha
7. "I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it." ~ Edward Ruscha
8. "I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration." ~ Edward Ruscha
9. "Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time." ~ Edward Ruscha
10. "I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A." ~ Edward Ruscha
11. "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." ~ Edward Ruscha
12. "When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots." ~ Edward Ruscha
13. "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." ~ Edward Ruscha
14. "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." ~ Edward Ruscha
15. "My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic." ~ Edward Ruscha
16. "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." ~ Edward Ruscha
17. "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." ~ Edward Ruscha
18. "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.'" ~ Edward Ruscha
19. "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." ~ Edward Ruscha
20. "The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed." ~ Edward Ruscha

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