Edward Ruscha Quotes

I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.

I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.

I don't write about nature, but I'm definitely very inspired by it.

We are spoilt for beauty in Edinburgh, it's so close to the sea and the mountains.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadian, and there are so many beautiful parts of Canada, but the United States also has incredible diversity in its landscape.

I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.

For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

From the time I was a kid, I was crazy about anything having to do with the West. I'd look at all of these photos of Montana, and they all seemed so magical and majestic. I just wanted to go west, and I finally did it when I was barely 21. I went off to volunteer at a Navajo reservation in New Mexico.

I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.