Jeff Koons Quotes

Jeff Koons
American Artist
Born: Jan 21, 1955
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Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Roy Lichtenstein Yoko Ono
I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. Jeff Koons
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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
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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
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If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual. Jeff Koons
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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them. Jeff Koons
People Possibility Make Around Judgments Close Them
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
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The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. Jeff Koons
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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. Jeff Koons
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I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be. Jeff Koons
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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
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I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state. Jeff Koons
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A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all. Jeff Koons
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I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people. Jeff Koons
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