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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
Art to me is a humanitarian act, and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to affect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Jeff Koons
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
Jeff Koons
I'm trying to go through moral crisis myself to the highest degree that I can, to remove moral crisis from the visual vocabulary of the viewer, so that when somebody sees my work, the only thing that they see is the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Jeff Koons
The media, the galleries, the collectors – it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine. Of course there's a system of sorts. This person will talk to that person and somebody else will pass it on to somebody else... you can trace a line of power of some kind. But its nothing like as clear and set as people think. And this chaos leads to a lot of insecurity. It's only after an artist has achieved some independence from it that he MODERN PAINTERS can really stand up to the collectors and the dealers and do his art.
Jeff Koons
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Jeff Koons
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
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
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'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the neces-sary abilities, so I go to the top people, whether I'm working with my foundry - Tallix - or in physics. I'm always trying to maintain the integrity of the work.
Jeff Koons
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
Jeff Koons
When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
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 don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
Jeff Koons
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. Thats where its found. Its found within you.
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
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 was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
Jeff Koons
My favorite activity is to be with my family.
Jeff Koons
I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
Jeff Koons
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
Jeff Koons
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
Jeff Koons
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