Jeff Koons Quotes

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

Jeff Koons

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Most
  • Global Warming
  • Global

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Live
  • Disease

• Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • You
  • Unique

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Game

• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweetness
  • Richness
  • Spice

• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Life
  • Happiness

• I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Music
  • Painting

• I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Music
  • Art
  • Powerful