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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.
— 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
All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
— Claes Oldenburg
I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.
— 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
My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.
— Claes Oldenburg
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
Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.
— 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 always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.
— Claes Oldenburg
My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
— Claes Oldenburg
I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
— Claes Oldenburg
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
— 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
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.
— Claes Oldenburg
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
— Claes Oldenburg
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
— Claes Oldenburg
There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.
— Claes Oldenburg
The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.
— Claes Oldenburg
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
— Claes Oldenburg
I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun.
— Claes Oldenburg
A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.
— Claes Oldenburg
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
— Claes Oldenburg
Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.
— Claes Oldenburg
My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.
— Claes Oldenburg
If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.
— Claes Oldenburg
The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.
— Claes Oldenburg
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.
— Claes Oldenburg
The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
— 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
