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Top 25 Edward Ruscha Quotes (2025 Update)

Edward Ruscha Quote: “I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.”

1. “I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “Good art should elicit a response of ‘Huh? Wow!’ as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?’”

2. “Good art should elicit a response of ‘Huh? Wow!’ as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?’”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.”

4. “My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.”

5. “Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “I don’t do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.”

6. “I don’t do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that’s what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.”

8. “When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that’s what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “I don’t watch TV, so I feel like I’m left out of the American fabric or something.”

9. “I don’t watch TV, so I feel like I’m left out of the American fabric or something.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.”

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

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “People refuse to believe that I’ve never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.”

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

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.”

14. “Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Edward Ruscha Quote: “All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I’ve always had a weakness for heroic imagery.”

16. “All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I’ve always had a weakness for heroic imagery.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Edward Ruscha Quote: “Most artists are doing basically the same thing – staying off the streets.”

20. “Most artists are doing basically the same thing – staying off the streets.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.”

21. “When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.”

22. “Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “I have no social agenda with my work. I’m deadpan about it.”

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

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Edward Ruscha Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “I travel a lot, but I don’t come away with new inspiration.”

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

— Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha Quote: “The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.”

28. “The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.”

— Edward Ruscha

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