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Well, I have a very simple method of painting. Edward Hopper

Simple Painting Well Method Very

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. Edward Lear

Peace People Babies Other Distressed Eaten Had Died Door Fiddle Much Next Next Door Who Twin Twins Played Violin

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

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

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

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. Edward Ruscha

Work Art You Respect Rare Big Living Sold Out Rare Occasions Some Could Never Had Also Well Make Occasions Were Friends Any Artist Just Artists Gain Little Gallery Your Notion Show Who Shred Gravy

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology. Edward Ruscha

Social Media Kind Join Well Did Any May Social Media

I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical. Edward Ruscha

Me Digital Somewhere Drive Changed City Some Structure Park Parking Lifestyle Concept Attracted Because Mistrust Access Real Concrete Vertical Front Going Heaven Hollywood Bargain Grown Now Right Here

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

Travel Inspiration New Come Lot Away

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. Edward Ruscha

Work Art Me History Change Old Sense Think Enough Back Dramatically Everything Possession See Some About Something More Had Had Enough Written Like Go Method Years Years Ago Done Artists Disgusted Being Working Use Waste Basically

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work. Edward Ruscha

Work Own My Own Gotta Up Artist Stand Stand Up

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

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

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

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

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

Work About Social Agenda

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me. Egon Schiele

Beautiful Great Me Fruit Joy Will Birth Must Vitality Given Shall Noble Qualities How Leave Been Decay Behind After Which Eternal Your Therefore Even United

Everything is dead while it lives. Egon Schiele

Everything Dead While Lives

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. Egon Schiele

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness. Egon Schiele

Sadness Father Else Remembers Noble Know Anyone Anyone Else Whether Who

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices. Egon Schiele

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. Eileen Brennan

People Think Unkind Laugh Rigid About Cannot Mean Themselves Who

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened. Eileen Brennan

Me Car Taken Almost Hit Frightened Died Show Away

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