Collected Quote by Jeff Koons

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting…

— James Franco

Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence,…

— Warren MacKenzie

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought…

— Eli Broad

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

— Ennio Morricone

That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some…

— Gerhard Richter

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented…

— Joe Average

The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor…

— Joseph Beuys

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

— Dennis Oppenheim

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether…

— Coco Rocha

I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my…

— Kehinde Wiley

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

— Michael Heizer