American - Artist | November 29, 1933 - March 31, 2017
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
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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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We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.
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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.
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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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I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!
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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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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.
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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
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Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
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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!
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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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