Explore Quotes by Jeff Koons

Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

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.

From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people.

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

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 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.

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

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.

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.

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.

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

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

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.

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 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.

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

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

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 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.