“I get my inspiration from just about everything, even things I hate, and they all combine into a Mixmaster of thought and activity. My pictures come out of this Mixmaster, they’re tumbling when they come out, and they can be difficult to grasp and understand. But they are still pictorial to me. I’m making a painting, I’m making a picture [...]. I don’t analyze it. When I’m driving a car, I might have the radio tuned to any given channel, but it’s a soundtrack to what I’m seeing out my windshield. I imagine that all paintings could have a soundtrack, and if they did, [...] [m]y soundtrack might be something like the overlapping of two unlikely radio stations that produce crackle and aggravating noise.”
(Ed Ruscha quoted in: Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Kornhauser, Course of Empire, Gagosian Gallery, Autumn 2018, online)