Top 43 Quotes by James Rosenquist

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.'

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

I travel a lot.

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.

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.

Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.

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

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

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

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