James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquistis an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. Rosenquist was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth29 November 1933
CityGrand Forks, ND
CountryUnited States of America
art money
Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.
amazing cameron met named studied university war
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.
half marshall
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.'
good legacy moving selling till work worry
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.
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.
weighs
Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.
tricks
I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
artist best clothing free
The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.
cannot took ways
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.
collages stick
I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.
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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.
art believe
Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.