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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.
Claes Oldenburg
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Claes Oldenburg
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 28
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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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My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying I was remaking them as my own.
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The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
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I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
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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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Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.
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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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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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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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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
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For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two eat one and drop the other.
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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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I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.
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I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
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My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
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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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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.
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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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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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.
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