93 Quotes by Claes Oldenburg

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

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.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.