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Art Quotes by Jeff Koons
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
- 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 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.
- I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong