Jeff Koons Quotes - Page 3

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

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

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

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

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.

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.

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.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

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.

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.