There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.
Edward RuschaI think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.
Edward RuschaI believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.
Edward RuschaPart 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 RuschaA lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so jibing, and they're clashing. But they all seem to be working in their own domain. Whereas back in the '60s, man, it was kind of a dull world. It was a vital world. But it was kind of contained and not too recognized by the public. Now art is absolutely recognized by the public.
Edward Ruscha