“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.” — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson,… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art,… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times.… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me.… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
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… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
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… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
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… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
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… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share
![“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.” quote by Claes Oldenburg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dfc/claes-oldenburg-10596_andy-warhol_andy-warhol-was-on-the-scene-but-he-wasn_2853956.png)
