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There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

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Claes Oldenburg
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 28
Designer
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Performance Artist
Printmaker
Sculptor
Sthlm
Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
Claes Thure Oldenburg
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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
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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 don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
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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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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 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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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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For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two eat one and drop the other.
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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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.
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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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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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The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
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The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
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All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
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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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