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I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

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Claes Oldenburg

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

Drew, East, Found, Painted, People, Sides
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Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

Art, Completely, Everything, Kid, Kids, Made

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

Art, Ass, Favor, Fun, Museums

Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.

Care, Like, Meaningful, Pieces, Stimulating

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

Copying, My Own, Paint, Remaking

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

Cake, Cakes, Clay, Like, Odor, Scale
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