The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.
Claes OldenburgThe art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
Claes OldenburgYou can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
Claes Oldenburg