Jeff Koons Quotes
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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 love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
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I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
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As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
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I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
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Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.
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I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
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I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
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Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
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A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.
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If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
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I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.