Claes Oldenburg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Art #Kids #Made
I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
-- Claes Oldenburg

#Art #Growing Up #Knowing
I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ***** in a museum.
-- Claes Oldenburg

#Art #Fun #Museums
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

#Art #Ice Cream #Underwear
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

#Art #Thinking #Goes On
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
-- Claes Oldenburg

#Cities #Chicago #Strange
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

#Art #Helping #Old Lady
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
-- Claes Oldenburg

#Art #Communication #Technique
My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
-- Claes Oldenburg

#Mother #Red
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

#Sweet #Art #Stupid
I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.
-- Claes Oldenburg

#Art #Real #Character
All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.
-- Claes Oldenburg

#Inspirational #Fun #Horns
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

#Levels #Painting #Process

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