James Rosenquist (b. 1933)

"Art is the greatest risk of all, because when you're making something, you're constantly asking yourself what the hell you're doing... That's the part that excites you. The work part doesn't, the possibility of a new outcome does. It's scary putting a new vision together that can change your thinking or someone else's. I think it can be done. You can make something so beautiful, or so serious, or so ugly that it scrambles your mind and changes your attitude toward seeing things" (J. Rosenquist quoted in J. Goldman, James Rosenquist, The Denver Art Museum, 1985, p. 12).

Rosenquist in his studio. Courtesy of James Rosenquist studio.