Claes Oldenburg Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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

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• In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

  Claes Oldenburg

  People, East, Sides

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• They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Littles, Stuff, Strange

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Levels, Painting, Process

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