Art Quote by Claes Oldenburg Download Open image “I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.” — Claes Oldenburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art Does Artist Ass Ass Museum Doe Favor Favor Art Favors Fun Museum Museums
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert on art but sometimes I like to spend time in art museums. — Dmitry Bivol Copy Share Image
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are? — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires… — Antony Gormley 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
