Jeff Koons Quotes

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• I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
• I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the…
• I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
• I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
• I'm interested in power.
• If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
• My favorite activity is to be with my family.
• Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
• I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended…
• If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about…
• From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and…
• I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were…
• If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea -…
• Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all…
• When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
• 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…
• The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

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