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I travel a lot.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Travel
Lot
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I can handle ups and downs.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Handle
Downs
Ups
Ups And Downs
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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Pop Art
Steroids
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I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!
James Rosenquist / Artist
Getting Old
Sticking
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Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Me Feel Nothing
Weighs
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Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Capitalist
Questioning
Warhol
Capitalist Society
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I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences.
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Anecdotes
Accumulate
Experiences
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I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Getting Old
Clocks
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I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
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Tricks
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History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Art
War
Machines
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I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.
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Billboards
Brooklyn
Candy
Candy Store
Painted
Store
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I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.
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Tomorrow
Yesterday
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I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.
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Always Trying
Trying
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The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
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Mother And Father
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It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Beautiful
Mean
Painting
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I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.
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Actions
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I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Bunch
Madison
Madison Avenue
Advertiser
Avenue
Jerks
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If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.
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Bigs
Feelings
Painting
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I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Artist
Born
Doe
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As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.
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Interesting
Waste
Time Person More
Gets
Older
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Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Art World
Art Money World
Artists
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When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
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Chapel
Paint
Sistine
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The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.
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Clothing
Pretty Girls
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In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.
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Energy
Painting
Way
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When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
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Frustrating
Peculiar
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I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Painting
Month
Collage
Stick
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I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
James Rosenquist / Artist
Contemporary
Flicker
Light
Vision
Associations
Bang
Bing
Interested
Flashes
Quick
Rapid
Reflections
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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.
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Insane
Admit
Troubled
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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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Memories
Painting
Remember
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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.
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Empty
Miami
Museums
Boats
Oranges
Virtually
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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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Paint
Interruption
Loft
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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.
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Automobile
Crash
Bear
Devastating
Recover
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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.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Cameron
Minnesota
World War I
Named
World War
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I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Hair
Museums
Simple
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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.
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Glue
Old Friends
Dealing
Hard Time
Recipe
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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.'
James Rosenquist / Artist
Advertising
Good Man
Minneapolis
Painting
Good Always Man
Good Man Good Man
Billboard
Oh Yeah
Outdoor
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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.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Alive
Fun
Having Fun
Legacy
Moving
Selling
Worry
Die
Work Good I Am
Dead
Having
Till
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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.
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American Society
Antiwar
Nine
Comments
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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.'
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Canada
Disagree
Your Know Story
Mr
Marshall
Panel
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Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Space
Ceilings
Painting
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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!
James Rosenquist / Artist
Cooking
Department
New York Times
Fired
Reviewer
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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.
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Common
Painter
Warhol
Andy
Artists
Billboard
Commercial
Manner
Meet
The Only Thing
Work Together
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We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.
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Communication
Gusto
Impact
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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.
James Rosenquist / Artist
Blur
Contemporary
Contemporary Life
Culture
Mind
Popular Culture
Representing
Succession
Life Culture Way
Why
Life Mind Way
Between
Collage
Creates
Effective
Effective Way
Images
Motion
Popular
Which
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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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Canvas
Fragments
Medicine
Nostalgia
Cabinet
Images
Reached
Recede
Spill
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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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Columbus
Paint
Purple
Wide
Avenue
Brush
Circle
Coat
Dropped
Gallon
Seventh
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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.
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Architect
Hot
Louvre
Amazing Me People
Doctor
Daniel
Driver
Introduced
Jean
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I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'
James Rosenquist / Artist
Artist
Looks
Thinking
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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?
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Dust
Gravity
Identical
Planets
Attached
Directions
Scientists
Speculate
Universes
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