I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. 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.

~ Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg Art Claes Oldenburg

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

~ Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg City First Compete