"Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of……" — Jeff Koons
"Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class."
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57 Quotes by Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons has 57 quotes on this site.
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My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.
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The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and…
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Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !
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When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art,…
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I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that…
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The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not…
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Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them.…
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The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure…
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I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just…
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I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I…
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I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.
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I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and…
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More Abstraction Quotes
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one of 249 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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