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Claes Oldenburg quotes: 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

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 quotes: 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

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 quotes: All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

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 quotes: My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

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 quotes: Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

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

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Claes Oldenburg quotes: You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

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

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

Claes Oldenburg quotes: I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

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

Claes Oldenburg quotes: The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.

The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

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

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

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Claes Oldenburg quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

Claes Oldenburg quotes: 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.

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

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

Claes Oldenburg quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.

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 quotes: I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

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

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

Claes Oldenburg quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

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

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

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

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