Jeff Koons Quotes
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
Quotes to Explore
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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I love the people I work with and the stuff I've found and that's found me.
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The spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.
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If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.
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If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
