Edward Ruscha
Edward Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IVis an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth16 December 1937
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
art artist gain gallery living notion occasions rare respect shred sold work
The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.
photography art thinking
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.
artist my-own
As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.
artist survival streets
Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.
photography artist facts
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.
weakness heroic artistic
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
art opportunity rare-occasion
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.
country art fun
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 thinking years
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.
artist ideas cartoon
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.
art wow should
Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'
europe experience glamorous happening hope melody puts side sweet traveling
Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.
check draw helps manage taking
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.
cities people mind
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.