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
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
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. — 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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 place in… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image