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Source: 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
Source: Claes Oldenburg, Constructions, Models, and Drawings: Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, April 30-May 31, 1969
“For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.”
Source: Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg : a Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996
“I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.”
“Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.”
“The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.”
“My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.”
“I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.”
“Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.”
“There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.”
“I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.”
“I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.”
“Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.”
Source: 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
“Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.”
Source: Proposals for monuments and buildings, 1965-69