Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money. James Rosenquist Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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.’ James Rosenquist Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
