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Claes Oldenburg Quotes

The right angle is one of the world’s basic shapes Picture Quote #1

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it’s all commerce Picture Quote #1

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That’s what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance Picture Quote #1

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn’t - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, Why don’t you show the other stuff? I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition Picture Quote #1

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I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody’s got a gun Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened Picture Quote #1

When you’re working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract Picture Quote #1

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren’t for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture Picture Quote #1

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject Picture Quote #1

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My work doesn’t have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]’s work. But it’s gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us Picture Quote #1

If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I’ve moved from one place to another, the work has changed Picture Quote #1

I don’t do abstract art because I don’t find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions Picture Quote #1

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it Picture Quote #1

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all Picture Quote #1

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red Picture Quote #1

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Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process Picture Quote #1

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself Picture Quote #1

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete Picture Quote #1

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’m in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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The right angle is one of the world’s basic shapes (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities (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. (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. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That’s what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn’t - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, Why don’t you show the other stuff? I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody’s got a gun. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) 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. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) When you’re working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren’t for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) My work doesn’t have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]’s work. But it’s gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I’ve moved from one place to another, the work has changed. (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) I don’t do abstract art because I don’t find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) My mother warned me to avoid things colored red (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself (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 (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication (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 (Claes Oldenburg Quotes) I’m in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum (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 the street (Claes Oldenburg Quotes)