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People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

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

James Rosenquist

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.

James Rosenquist

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

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

James Rosenquist

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

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

James Rosenquist

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

James Rosenquist

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

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!

James Rosenquist

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

James Rosenquist

I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!

James Rosenquist

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

James Rosenquist

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

I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.

James Rosenquist

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

James Rosenquist

I can handle ups and downs.

James Rosenquist

I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.

James Rosenquist

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.

James Rosenquist

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.'

James Rosenquist