“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.” ArtIdeasBigsSchoolClassCollegeHigh SchoolImpressionNo IdeaArt Class Author:Claes Oldenburg
“I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."” ChildrenSaidIdeasMotherNextFatherBornHappenedNew YorkImmigrantsPregnantSweden Author:Claes Oldenburg
“You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.” WantIdeasObjects Author:Claes Oldenburg
