James Rosenquist Quotes
-
As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.
-
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.
-
I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.
-
You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.
-
Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything?
-
I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.
-
I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'
-
Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
-
I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences.
-
Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.
-
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
-
The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.
-
The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
-
The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.
-
I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'
-
I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.
-
I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.
-
It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.
-
The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.
-
I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.
-
I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.
-
I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
-
Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
-
I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.