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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

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America. — James Toback

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does. — Donald Judd

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. — Claes Oldenburg

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject. — Claes Oldenburg

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other. — 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

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red. — Claes Oldenburg

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. — Claes Oldenburg

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract. — Claes Oldenburg

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects. — 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 think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — 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

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do. — 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 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

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism. — Claes Oldenburg

The development of an informal public life depends people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus. — Ray Oldenburg

The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation. — Ray 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 right angle is one of the world's basic shapes. — 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

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own. — 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

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. — 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 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

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. — Claes Oldenburg