Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

- James Rosenquist

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

- James Rosenquist

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'…

- James Rosenquist

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios…

- James Rosenquist

I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master pai…

- James Rosenquist

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

- James Rosenquist

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

- James Rosenquist

We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shou…

- James Rosenquist

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

- James Rosenquist