Claes Oldenburg

Books by Claes Oldenburg

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I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.
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I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. 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.
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I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.
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I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. 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.
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I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.
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My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
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