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Jeff Koons
American
Artist
Born:
Jan 21
,
1955
Always
Art
Me
People
Work
You
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I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
Jeff Koons
Work
People
Try
Luxury
Visual
About
Through
Real
Educate
Materialism
Them
Show
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
Work
Art
Time
Me
People
School
Entering
Membership
Would
Through
Over
Come
Period
Revenue
Came
Up
Art School
Ended
Modern
Modern Art
Information
Them
Ask
Worked
Doubling
Amount
Fundraising
Desk
Museum
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
Art
Me
Better
Word
Responsibility
Believe
Able
Somehow
Better Place
Make
Effect
Place
Mankind
Should
Act
Humanitarian
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
You
Gesture
Move On
Way
Immediate
Drawing
Physical
Both
Idea
Make
Making
Intellectual
Articulating
Move
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
Art
Believe
Philosophical
Statements
Morality
Point
Underdog
Concern
Making
Trying
Gets
Psychological
Theater
Across
Speaking
Help
Showing
Socially
Here
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
Jeff Koons
Great
Community
Rapport
Artists
Younger
Whitney
Museum
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
Jeff Koons
You
Control
Finish
Given
Up
Whenever
Artwork
Viewer
Views
Moment
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
Music
Art
Me
Made
First
Enjoy
Medium
Mediums
Say
Could
Powerful
Understand
How
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
Time
Political
Church
Think
State
One Time
Economic
Investigating
Supported
Also
Always
How
Were
Artists
Then
Platform
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
Work
Art
State
Kind
Emotional
Put
Takes
Because
Am
Very
Where
Place
Really
Certain
Viewer
Conscious
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
Work
Economics
Say
Easy
About
Something
Consumerism
Put
Since
Looked
Box
Course
Deals
Surface
Lot
Very
Times
Oh
Just
Want
Much
Base
Desires
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
Jeff Koons
People
Everything
Seeing
Like
Look
Different
Meaning
Different Things
Things
Appreciate
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