Jeff Koons Quotes

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• My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.
• The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity…
• Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !
• When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense…
• I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably…
• The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and it’s…
• Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
• Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities…
• The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.
• I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with…
• I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.
• I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.
• 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 the…
• My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.
• The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is…
• Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
• As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.
• 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 some…
• It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.
• I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

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