You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
Claes OldenburgI'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes OldenburgThe sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"
Claes OldenburgI 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