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James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist

American Artist

Born: Nov 29, 1933

Died: Mar 31, 2017

Good Me Painting Time Work You

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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. James Rosenquist

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside. James Rosenquist

Painting Tricks Outside Learned Lot

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content. James Rosenquist

Chapel Out Content Sistine Wanted Paint Started

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. James Rosenquist

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

Work Made Feelings Society Nine About Various Pictures Because Comments Antiwar American Did Done Them American Society Certainly Paintings

I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't. James Rosenquist

Day Every Day Important Every Think Seems Actions

I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks. James Rosenquist

Avenue Madison Madison Avenue Like Know Advertiser Bunch Used Jerks

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it! James Rosenquist

Hate Old Getting Old Sticking Getting

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.' James Rosenquist

Good Man Good Man Painting Minneapolis Outdoor General Could Advertising Around Said Always Yeah Oh Oh Yeah Use Billboard Here Started

I can handle ups and downs. James Rosenquist

Ups And Downs Handle Ups Downs

We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic. James Rosenquist

Seem Small Remain Exist Optimistic May

Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight. James Rosenquist

Me Nothing Weighs Weight Feel Any

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

Time People Animals Own Dust Living Universe Our Earth Say Out Directions Attached Outside Identical Another Scientists Anything Planets Many Thing Things Gravity Speculate Universes

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. James Rosenquist

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

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks. James Rosenquist

Old Getting Old Like Am Clocks Getting Really

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