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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.
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I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
James Rosenquist
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I can handle ups and downs.
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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.
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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.
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Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.
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Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
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If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.
James Rosenquist
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I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
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We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.
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I travel a lot.
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I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!
James Rosenquist -
I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.
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People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
James Rosenquist
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I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.
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Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.
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The image is not important.
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Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.
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There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!
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Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.
James Rosenquist