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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.

It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.

From James Rosenquist

I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

From James Rosenquist

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

From James Rosenquist

You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.

From James Rosenquist

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

From James Rosenquist

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

From James Rosenquist

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

From James Rosenquist

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.

From James Rosenquist

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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