Jeff Koons Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Believe #Responsibility
“Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Looks #World
“The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. Itâ€™s not about the object, and itâ€™s not about the image; itâ€™s about the viewer. That's where the art happens.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Jobs #People
“I think about my work every minute of the day.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Thinking #Architecture
“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.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #World #Arena
“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.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Way #Doe
“Ive always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. Thats what Ive always done.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Feelings #Connections
“When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.”
-- Jeff Koons

#People #Judgment #Possibility
“For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. Thats where its found. Its found within you.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Acceptance #Self
“Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Touch Me
“When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Thinking #Views
“My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Inspired #Process #Interest
“I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Children #Opportunity
“The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Technology #Opportunity
“I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Ideas #People #Collaboration
“Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Money #Financial #Protect
“As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Spiritual #Moving #Civilization
“I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Jelly #Normal #Natural
“I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Thinking #Profession
“I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Years #World
“I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Trying #Participation #Feels
“It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Needs #Stay Focused #Workers
“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

#Art #Powerful #Firsts
“I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Philosophical #Believe
“I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Motivation #Believe
“I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Mean #Drawing #Long
“I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.”
-- Jeff Koons

#People #Appreciate #Different
“I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Germany #Artwork #Produce
“I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Different #More Time
“I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.”
-- Jeff Koons

#Artist #Thinking #Like You

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