I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show. — 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
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 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
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 Image
