James Rosenquist Quotes

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

I try to do what has never been done before.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

I want to create new value by doing something people haven't done before.

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I like people who push the envelope.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

What I have done here no one has done before.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

That's just what I want to do: Create a path that's unknown. It's hard in this business and this world we live in to trail-blaze. To create something different and do your own thing is hard nowadays. That's what I want to do. I want to take these matches to a whole new level and break that bar.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."