"From early on I developed an attraction for the incongruous. I had no wish to try to resolve visual contradictions. I felt that aesthetic disparities were actually questions, questions that I did not need to answer. By leaving the meaning up in the air I could provoke responses in the viewer that would trigger further questioning. What are these things I'm looking at and what do they mean? Each person seeing the painting will come away with a different idea."
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James Rosenquist, Preschool Prep Company: Notes on a Life in Art, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 978-0-3072-6342-1, pp. 101-102
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