Jeff Koons Quotes
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I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
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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 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 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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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 try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
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I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.
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I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
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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.
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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
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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.
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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.
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
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If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.
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I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
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I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.