57 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

I can handle ups and downs.