American - Artist | November 29, 1933 - March 31, 2017
The image is not important.
James Rosenquist
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I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
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As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.
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It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.
PeopleAmazingMeDoctorYouMeet
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.
WorkGoodLiveI AmFunLegacy
I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
I AmGetting OldOldLikeReallyAm
I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.
I AmTomorrowYesterdayNowRight
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