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
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
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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.'
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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.
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Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
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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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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.