57 Quotes by 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.'

I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.

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

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?

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

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

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!

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.

The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.