Edward Ruscha Quotes

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

I don't want to be like Europe. I want to be like America.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

What "Make America Great" means is it doesn't mean race, and it doesn't mean gender, and it doesn't mean sexual orientation, and it doesn't mean anything identity politics related that seems to appeal to the Democrat Party. It's about a culture. It's about an identity. It's about an idea - the American idea, the American ideal.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

I'm a mix; I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page.

I wonder what it means when Americans say I'm an American. In Britain the culture is basically the same from one end of the country to the other. And when I came here and I saw Americans who live, I don't know, in you know, Northwestern California as opposed to Americans who live in Louisiana, as opposed to Americans who live in the Nevada desert. English even is literally a picture that I have in my mind of an oak tree in the field, a single oak in a green field. And also when I think of my Russian roots, it's the landscape that I connect with as more than maybe the poetry or the drama.

We should only admit into America those who share our values and respect our people.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.