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I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.
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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
Jeff Koons
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I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
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One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.
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I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
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I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
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The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
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I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
Jeff Koons
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I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
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I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
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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.
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I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state.
Jeff Koons -
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
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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.
Jeff Koons
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I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
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Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
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Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
Jeff Koons -
Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.
Jeff Koons -
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 -
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.
Jeff Koons
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I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.
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I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
Jeff Koons -
I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
Jeff Koons -
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
Jeff Koons