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Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
American Artist
Born: Jan 21, 1955
Always Art Me People Work You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Roy Lichtenstein Yoko Ono
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
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I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life. Jeff Koons
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For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you. Jeff Koons
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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
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Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas. Jeff Koons
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I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous. Jeff Koons
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I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done. Jeff Koons
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I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests. Jeff Koons
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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
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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
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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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Art helped give me confidence. 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 spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. 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 produce a lot of my artwork in Germany. 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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Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. Jeff Koons
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A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market. 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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