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My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: Abstraction Activity Around Been Escape Feeling Like Object Offset Painting People Personality Practical Remind Return Returning Sense Senses Struggle Suggest Tangible Tendency Touching Vagueness Which World

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I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: Being For The People Honest Monument People Personal Rhetorical Symbolic Therefore Think I Think

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My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: Aim Existence Fantasy Give Single-Minded

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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: About Chicago Death Elegance Metaphysical Strange

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I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: Am Art Concrete Cream Dropped Ice Ice Cream Underwear I Am

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A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: Active Cycle Dying Energetic Imposed Life Object Phase Then Very

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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: Architecture Around City Compete Could First Large Monument Scale

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If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: Another Around Artist Built Changed Earlier Experiences Find Lot Moved Much Place Pretty Really Search Times Want Work You Yourself

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I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'

~Claes Oldenburg

Topics: Action Also Approach Compare Drop Effects Found Like Material Paint Painting Slide Streets Surface Treat

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Sculptor

Born: January 28th, 1929

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