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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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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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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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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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 believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.
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I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
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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.
