I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object. - Claes Oldenburg
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
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…
Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid. - Claes Oldenburg
Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.
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
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…
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. - Claes Oldenburg
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own. - Claes Oldenburg
My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.
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
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…
There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects. - Claes Oldenburg
There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.
I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. - Claes Oldenburg
I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
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