Jeff Koons Quotes (15 Quotes)


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

    It's always wonderful to come to an event. I know how in my life art has come in and really changed it, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art.

    We haven't even broken ground yet, and we're ready to sell, ... I'm concerned about the water resources.

    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,

    If you've got the business community coming in and asking for a dramatic tax cut, one of the first things on the chopping block is going to be the development board, ... There's some tension there.


    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.

    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.

    This thing got jammed down our throats, ... To me it just didn't make any sense. Even to this day, we're trying to think about how we're going to build roads out there.

    I think about my work every minute of the day.

    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.

    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.

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

    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'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 told Mr. Weisman that this was getting embarrassing, ... It's the first time that I've ever gone to him and used the word 'please.'


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