American - Artist | November 29, 1933 - March 31, 2017
Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
James Rosenquist
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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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The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
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I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
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When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
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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.
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The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.
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I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.
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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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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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Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.
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I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.
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