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People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

When I drive, I check out everything I see, and just taking in all those observations helps me think. So I draw and write a lot as I drive, and I know that's dangerous, but I manage to do it off to the side, with my notes on the seat.

Edward Ruscha

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

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

Edward Ruscha

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

Edward Ruscha

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

Edward Ruscha

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

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

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

Edward Ruscha

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

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.

Edward Ruscha