Edward Ruscha Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1937

Topics

WorkChangeHistoryArtMeThink

Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.

Jim Harrison

LifeCarMemoriesWifeRandomDrive

My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.

Andrew Young

LookingYouFeelingFindGoWay

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

John Lydon

LifeWritingBusyMy LifeMoments

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Sophocles

GodChanceLuckyAlwaysDiceRoll

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

FamilyTruthMyselfChildhoodMe

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

Steve Toltz

I AmEyePageTryEntertaining

Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my children - and my desire to make the world better a better place for them, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.

Tom Carper

LifeLoveChildrenWorldBetter

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.

Mohamed ElBaradei

SocietyYouWillEmpowerModerate

Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do it.'

Deandre Ayton

MeBasketballPlayLikeEverybody

If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He's got a different band every time he goes out.

Chris Frantz

GoodTimeHappyDoingUniqueCareer

I love tailcoats; I love blazers. I love tailored things.

Shenae Grimes

LoveThingsTailoredI Love

I like jazz, and Martin Taylor and his band have it all, including a wonderful saxophonist and very fine accordionist, so you get a rather unusual range of sound.

Tim Pigott-Smith

YouJazzBandSoundWonderfulGet

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