Jeff Koons Quotes
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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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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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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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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
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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 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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Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.
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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 produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
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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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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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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
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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'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.