Jeff Koons famous quotes

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. It’s not about the object, and it’s not about the image; it’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

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.
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Believe #Thinking

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.
-- Jeff Koons

#Creating #Trying #Use

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Mean #Alive

My favorite activity is to be with my family.
-- Jeff Koons

#My Family #My Favorite

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
-- Jeff Koons

#Thinking #Film #Disney Film

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

#Art #School #Fundraising

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.
-- Jeff Koons

#Trying #Wake Up #Use

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Artist #Dialogue

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Self #Sense Of Self

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Independent

Art helped give me confidence.
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Giving

The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.
-- Jeff Koons

#Taken #Artist #Insecurity

My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.
-- Jeff Koons

#Health #People #Support

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

#Artist #Trying #Messengers

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
-- Jeff Koons

#Responsibility

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
-- Jeff Koons

#Dog #Class #Luxury

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
-- Jeff Koons

#Nervous

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.
-- Jeff Koons

#Business #Media #People

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

#Drawing #Missing #Tree

I'm interested in power.
-- Jeff Koons

I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.
-- Jeff Koons

#Thinking #Pigs #Criticism

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
-- Jeff Koons

#Views #Moments #Artwork

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
-- Jeff Koons

#Years #Two #Done