James Rosenquist Quotes

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

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

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

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.