“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
“I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."” YearsSaidMy OwnHalfRecordsNew YorkSellingEveningPhonograph Author:Claes Oldenburg
“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.” LittlesSaidShowsStuffFiguresObjectsStrangePaintingMy FriendsTraditionPlanningThey SaidOld FashionedFigure Painting Author:Claes Oldenburg
