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" The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators. "

James Rosenquist

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" The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964. "

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" If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything. "

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" 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.' "

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" When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content. "

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" Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago. "

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

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" Warhol was questioning the capitalist society. "

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" I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat. "

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" Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money. "

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" 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! "

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

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" 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. "

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