Edward Ruscha Quotes

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I work instinctively. If I like something, I do it.

I create, dress, and act however I feel in a single moment.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

I always tried to play my hunches.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I never had a plan; I always follow my intuition.

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

'Beautiful' is a freestyle, actually. I actually made 'Beautiful' being like, 'I just want something to post on Instagram, like, I don't care, I'm just gonna throw something up today.'

I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do.

It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.