Quotes by Claes Oldenburg

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.

Lying

New York

Vacuums

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

Fun

Horns

Inspirational

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn’t an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He’d go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

Artist

Party

Shoes

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

Art

Communication

Technique

Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent – which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.

Meaningful

Pieces

Way

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Chicago

Cities

Strange

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

Art

Calling

Pops

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

Art

Kids

Made

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don’t eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell’s Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

Cake

Clay

Odor

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

Ice Cream

Two

Use

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Abstract

Agency

Air

America

Angle

Architecture

Art

Artist

Believe

Book

Bows

Building

Cake

Calling

Careful

Changed

Character

Chicago

Children

Cigarette

Cities

Clay

College

Commerce

Communication

Copying

Country

Different

Drawing

Drug

East

Erotic

Fall

Flags

Found

Fun

Goes On

Growing Up

Gun

Helping

Horns

Ice Cream

Ideas

Important

Inspirational

Interesting

Jobs

Kids

Killing Each Other

Knowing

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Quotes by Claes Oldenburg

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.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn’t an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He’d go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

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

Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent – which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

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

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

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don’t eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell’s Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

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

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