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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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My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
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I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
Claes Oldenburg
You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
Claes Oldenburg
I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes Oldenburg
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
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
For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two eat one and drop the other.
Claes Oldenburg
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
Claes Oldenburg
The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
Claes Oldenburg
Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.
Claes Oldenburg
I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.
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.
Claes Oldenburg
Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.
Claes Oldenburg
The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
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
All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
Claes Oldenburg
I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.
Claes Oldenburg
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
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
In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.
Claes Oldenburg
