James Rosenquist Quotes - click name for biography
· I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.
- James Rosenquist
· People say I use my billboard technique to make art. Baloney! I used my art technique to paint billboards.
- James Rosenquist
· It's all autobiographical, everything is, all of it.
- James Rosenquist
· If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.
- James Rosenquist
· Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.
- James Rosenquist
· It all has meaning to me. As I explain my paintings, I hope that they get away from me, that the idea takes off and has a life of its own.
- James Rosenquist
· I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil schmeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.
- James Rosenquist
· Have you ever watched anyone die? They are struggling for life and then they are dead and something seems to have left the room.. an electrical spark, a soul, I don't know what it is, but there is a cadaver left, and the spark is gone. That's very, very peculiar I think.
- James Rosenquist
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