I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church.… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete,… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me. — Jeff Koons Copy Share
I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal,… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. — Jeff Koons Copy Share
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's… — Jeff Koons Copy Share
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