Jeff Koons Quotes - Page 2

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

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

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

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

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

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 learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.

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.

My favorite activity is to be with my family.

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

I'm interested in power.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

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

Art helped give me confidence.

I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . .

Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.

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.

I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.

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.

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

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

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 thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.