Edward Ruscha Quotes
I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.
Ruscha, Ed. Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages. Edited by Alexandra Schwartz, MIT Press, 2002, p. 42.
To afford the President the greatest deference and respect should be a gratification to any citizen.
The Secretary was a very formal and proper man.
There is irony in this act and statement. The film was censored because it was a defamation to Jesus Christ, who the Muslims recognize as a holy Prophet. See {620971} . However, ultra-fundamentalist Muslim clerics preach hate and desecration of Christianity, Judiasm, and Hinduism commonly. None are ever prosecuted in Pakistan. Books and pamphlets excoriating Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Bhai prophets are common place in Pakistan. Ironically, this banned film was called for by the Catholic Church.
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is 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.