I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — 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
I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s,… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can… — 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
In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere.… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I was always interested in drawing. As a child, I started my own country, which was called Neubern. It was located in… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/dfc/claes-oldenburg-10596_art_andy-warhol-was-on-the-scene-but-he-wasn_2853956.jpg)
