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'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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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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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
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I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.
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Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.
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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.
