James Rosenquist Quotes
I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I will keep working hard!
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
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I want something mouthwatering and tasty which reminds me of childhood. The scent of a fairground, candy floss, little cakes, chocolates and caramels. Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style.
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It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.
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I was a few months out of office when the invasion of Iraq took place in March 2003. Had I still been governor, I might have been the only one who opposed it. It had to do with the fact that we were lining up our military against that country as an aggressor and an occupier.
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I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
