I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, … - Edward Ruscha

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My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Edward Ruscha

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.

Art, Classes, Country, Fun, Guess, Seeing

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Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

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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.

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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.

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Nothing's changed except the dates on the newspapers. I'm in my same skin thinking the same old thoughts. 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.

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I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

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