Claes Oldenburg Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Kids, Made

  Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”

• I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Fun, Museums

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

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Growing Up, Knowing

  Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”

• If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Thinking, Goes On

• I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Ice Cream, Underwear

  Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”

• 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 coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Sweet, Art, Stupid

  Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”

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

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Communication, Technique

• Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Pops, Changed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, School, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Flags, Cigarette

• I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Interesting, Abstract

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, New York, Fall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Helping, Old Lady

  Store Days: Documents from the Store (1961)

• I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Summer, Art, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Drug, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, People, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Real, Character

• Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Calling, Pops

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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