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. James Rosenquist Read Quote
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn’t have the content. James Rosenquist Read Quote
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. James Rosenquist Read Quote
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. James Rosenquist Read Quote
I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn’t like ’em. Bunch of jerks. James Rosenquist Read Quote
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? James Rosenquist Read Quote
