Jeff Koons Quotes
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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 go to the top people.
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As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.
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I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
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I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.
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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, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . .
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I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
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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 went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.
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I want my work to be accessible to people.
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I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
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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, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
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A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.
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I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
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I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
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My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.
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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 art - that's wonderful.
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I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
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Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !
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It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.
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Art helped give me confidence.
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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 be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
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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 really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.
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A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
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I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
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Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.
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I'm interested in power.
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I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
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I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
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I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
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