The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

- Claes Oldenburg

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 Ca…

- Claes Oldenburg

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

- Claes Oldenburg

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people…

- Claes Oldenburg

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

- Claes Oldenburg

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

- Claes Oldenburg

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coar…

- Claes Oldenburg

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

- Claes Oldenburg

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

- Claes Oldenburg