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Claes Oldenburg Quotes



Quotes by Claes Oldenburg - (7 quotes)

Claes Oldenburg - From the Art category:

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. I am for an artist who vanishes. (Claes Oldenburg)

Claes Oldenburg - From the Colour category:

My mother warned me to avoid things coloured red. (Claes Oldenburg)

Claes Oldenburg - From the Communication category:

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. (Claes Oldenburg)

Claes Oldenburg - From the Limitations category:

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it. (Claes Oldenburg)

Claes Oldenburg - From the Museums category:

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum. (Claes Oldenburg)

Claes Oldenburg - From the Painting category:

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process. (Claes Oldenburg)

Claes Oldenburg - From the Perfection category:

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. (Claes Oldenburg)