Edward Ruscha Quotes

Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

I like what Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are doing, but I think I'm just trying to do something different.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.