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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
-
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
-
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
-
With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
-
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
-
Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
-
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
-
'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.
-
I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I wound up taking a trip to Los Angeles and decided being an actor sounds pretty cool, too.
-
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
-
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.
-
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.
