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.
From James Rosenquist
Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
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.'
The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
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.
I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.
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.
People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
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