Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which … - Claes Oldenburg

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I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn’t one giant press junket. I don’t have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

Claes Oldenburg

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.

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Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

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

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

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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.

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I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

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