"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

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“T-Mobile is a young, consumer-driven business, and the average age of my customer outside of Bellevue is 27 or 28. They like outspoken, frank discussion. There was an event where it started to come together, I thought the audience would only care about the MLB guys, but they wanted to know what was on my mind. And I literally snapped about the state of the wireless industry. Over the next 24 hours, there was a lot of stuff that was coming out of my mouth that was meant to stay in Vegas, but it hit a chord. It was an action statement for me that I was going to fix this industry.”
“When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.”
“At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.”
“Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.”
“Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.”
“Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.”
“I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.”
“I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

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