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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
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Claes Oldenburg
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 28
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Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
Claes Thure Oldenburg
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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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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
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The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
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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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All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
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Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.
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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.
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I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
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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.
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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.
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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
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The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
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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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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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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.
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Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.
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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.
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It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Instead, I got a job at Cooper Union Library. I stayed at Cooper Union for seven years it was my salvation. While I worked there, I also read books of every kind.
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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.
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For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two eat one and drop the other.
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