Claes Oldenburg

“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.”

“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.”