"The film-maker David Lynch, a great admirer of Ruscha, who also adopted LA as his home and has offered his own interpretations of it in films such as Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, admits he is a bit perplexed by Ruscha’s assertion. “Ed has said California hasn’t influenced him one little bit, but I disagree. I like to think the California sun has burnt out all unnecessary elements in his work.” The bigger truth is that you can’t look at a lot of Ruscha’s paintings without thinking of LA, “with its sign-filled streets sprawling like dispersed and diffused flows of random information”" - Graham Sergeant