Ideas Quote by Claes Oldenburg

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

— Margaret Trudeau

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

— Tom Stoppard

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a…

— Thomas Mann

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds…

— Claes Oldenburg

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the idea of…

— Kurt Wagner

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done…

— Mary Parker Follett

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation,…

— Theodor Adorno

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

— Dario Argento

Freud: If its not one thing, its your mother.

— Robin Williams