Jeff Koons Quotes

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.

Jeff Koons

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• I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Art
  • Home

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Work
  • History
  • Years

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Rock

• When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • America
  • Together
  • History

• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Art
  • Desire

• I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • History
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Live
  • History
  • You

• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
  • True
  • Path

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Art
  • You

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fear

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Old
  • Rate

• With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Me
  • Testing

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• There is no caste in blood.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Blood
  • Caste

• I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Guy
  • Funny

• Different people have different views of the Taj but it would be enough to say that it has a life of its own that leaps out of marble, provided you understand that it is a monument of love. As an architectural masterpiece, nothing could be added or substracted from it.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Art
  • History