Jeff Koons Quotes
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.
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The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.
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I'll never forget my first Art Basel.
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When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.
