"My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves."

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Source : Jeff Koons, Eckhard Schneider, Rudolf Sagmeister (2001). “Jeff Koons”, Kunsthaus Bregenz

Jeff Koons

#Health Quotes #People Quotes #Support Quotes

“It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.”
“Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.”
“Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.”
“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”

Source : "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.
“The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.”
“My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.”
“Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player”
“Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 06, 2013

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