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Artwork Quote by Jeff Koons

“Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and…” quote by Jeff Koons — Download Open image

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

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A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in…

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I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in…

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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 would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just…

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I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal,…

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Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize…

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Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own…

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It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and…

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I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

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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 that's taking place in…

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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

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