Jeff Koons Quotes:
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
I think about my work every minute of the day.
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 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
Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.
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
I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.
Jeff Koons
I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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