Jeff Koons Quotes

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Jeff Koons

Profession : Artist

Birth : January 21, 1955

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

Jeff Koons

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.

Jeff Koons

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.

Jeff Koons

I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.

Jeff Koons

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 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 helped give me confidence.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

Jeff Koons

I'm interested in power.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons