Jeff Koons Quotes

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• I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
• I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
• I think about my work every minute of the day.
• Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to…
• I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here,…
• Art helped give me confidence.
• A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
• Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
• Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
• Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
• As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
• Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to…
• I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
• I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
• I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
• I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works…
• I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
• I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
• I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
• I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

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