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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

Topics: Check Dangerous Draw Drive Everything Helps Just Know Lot Manage Me Notes Observations Off Out Seat See Side Taking Think Those Write I See

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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

Topics: Around Changed Consider Country Else Everything Everything Else Great Last Last Time Miss More Now One Thing Open Pristine Road Saw Seeing Sport States Still The One Thing Thing Time United United States Very Way Western You

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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

Topics: Art Artist Barely Classes Country Did Explore Fun Further Going Guess Inspire Knew Liked Me Painting Realize Seeing Wanted

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

~Edward Ruscha

Topics: Captivated London Love Paris Rather Romance Visiting I Love

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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

Topics: Always Angeles Boxes California Full Getting Houses Knowing Looking Los Los Angeles Lots Now Old Photos Taken Up Used Vacant Very

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I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

~Edward Ruscha

Topics: About Agenda Social Work

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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

Topics: Displaying Down Ego Fall Good Got Maybe Part People Really Sell Think Trying I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: December 16th, 1937

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