Artist Quotes by 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…

— James Rosenquist

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

— James Rosenquist

I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great…

— James Rosenquist

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from…

— James Rosenquist

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

— James Rosenquist

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

— James Rosenquist

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

— James Rosenquist

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

— James Rosenquist

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

— James Rosenquist

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

— James Rosenquist

We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why…

— James Rosenquist