When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
Claes OldenburgI'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes OldenburgI like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can make all types of lamb chops. And that's true of everything. And people eat it and it changes and disappears.
Claes OldenburgI got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.
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