Jeff Koons Quotes

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Jeff Koons

Profession : Artist

Birth : January 21, 1955

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

Jeff Koons

My favorite activity is to be with my family.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

Jeff Koons

From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people.

Jeff Koons

I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

Jeff Koons

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

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

Jeff Koons

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state.

Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.

Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

Jeff Koons

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

Jeff Koons

I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.

Jeff Koons