James Rosenquist Quotes
When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I remember 'Wrestlemania 6' with The Ultimate Warrior against Hulk Hogan. It was so cool to see those guys go in there and the fans getting into the match so much.
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I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
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I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.
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Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man, in my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.
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When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
