Jeff Koons Quotes

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Jeff Koons

Profession : Artist

Birth : January 21, 1955

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.

Jeff Koons

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

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Jeff Koons

One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.

Jeff Koons

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

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

Jeff Koons

It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.

Jeff Koons

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

Jeff Koons

I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.

Jeff Koons

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

I've 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. That's what I've always done.

Jeff Koons

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

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

Jeff Koons

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

Jeff Koons

I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.

Jeff Koons

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

Jeff Koons

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

Jeff Koons

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