Claes Oldenburg

Life is a series of installations.

The giant objects I create are metaphors for human scale.

Art must be accessible and part of daily life.

I find beauty in the banal.

Monuments should be fun, not solemn.

The soft sculpture allows for a new kind of expression.

Everyday things become heroic in scale.

I am influenced by the energy of the city.

Art is about exaggeration and distortion.

The ice cream cone is a perfect form.

Collaboration in art brings new dimensions.

Public art should surprise and delight.

The familiar becomes unfamiliar in my work.

I seek the poetry in prosaic objects.

Scale changes everything.

Art is a way to comment on consumer culture.

Softness introduces vulnerability to sculpture.

I am for an art that grows up horizontally in the fields.

The typewriter is a machine for thinking.

Monumental art must engage the body.