Jeff Koons Quotes

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

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.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Art helped give me confidence.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

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.

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.

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

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

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

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.

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

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

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

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

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

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.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

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

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

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.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.

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

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.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

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

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

My favorite activity is to be with my family.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

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

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

I want my work to be accessible to people,

I'm interested in power.