Jeff Koons

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

— Jeff Koons

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come…

— Jeff Koons

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

— Jeff Koons

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

— Jeff Koons

Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly.…

— Jeff Koons

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

— Jeff Koons

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I…

— Jeff Koons

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and…

— Jeff Koons

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

— Jeff Koons

Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of…

— Jeff Koons

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

— Jeff Koons

Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is…

— Jeff Koons

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm…

— Jeff Koons

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people…

— Jeff Koons

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

— Jeff Koons

I think about my work every minute of the day.

— Jeff Koons

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

— Jeff Koons

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come…

— Jeff Koons

I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every…

— Jeff Koons

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago…

— Jeff Koons

The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I…

— Jeff Koons

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We…

— Jeff Koons

I want my work to be accessible to people.

— Jeff Koons

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological…

— Jeff Koons

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can…

— Jeff Koons