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I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.
Claes Oldenburg
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Claes Oldenburg
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 28
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Sthlm
Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
Claes Thure Oldenburg
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There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.
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You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
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I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.
Claes Oldenburg
Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.
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I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
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My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying I was remaking them as my own.
Claes Oldenburg
I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all.
Claes Oldenburg
My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.
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Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.
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I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.
Claes Oldenburg
For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two eat one and drop the other.
Claes Oldenburg
I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.
Claes Oldenburg
All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
Claes Oldenburg
I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.
Claes Oldenburg
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
Claes Oldenburg
I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.
Claes Oldenburg
Food is like clay you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.
Claes Oldenburg
Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.
Claes Oldenburg
Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.
Claes Oldenburg
The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
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