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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

My art has no object, no image, no point of focus. James Turrell

Art Focus Object No Point Point Image

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now. James Turrell

Art Made Had Contemporary Contemporary Art Because Now

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense. James Turrell

Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile. James Turrell

Light Something Primal Powerful Felt Situations Substance Connection Presence Fragile

At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden. James Turrell

Work Art Nature Garden Culture Natural Light Moon Stars Way Sun Out Taking Empowered Cultural Surround Artifice Wanted Spaces Interested Such A Way Bring Designing

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me. James Turrell

Life Me Light Important Our Part Idea Important Part Plays

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist. James Turrell

You Optimist Forget Artist Being

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question. James Turrell

Good Science Happy Know Answers Question Very Just Interested

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour. James Turrell

Sky Think Perceive Give Fact Colour In Fact Actually Receive

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. James Turrell

Reality Live Unaware Within How Quite Create

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