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."
Claes OldenburgIf 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 OldenburgI was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.
Claes Oldenburg