Jeff Koons Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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, Believe, Creativity

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

• Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Looks, World

• 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.

  Jeff Koons

  Inspirational, Art, Jobs

  "Art Changes Every Day". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. January 2014.

• I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Years, World

• Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Technology, Obsolete

  Jeff Koons (2002). “Jeff Koons: Pictures, 1980-2002”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

• I think about my work every minute of the day.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Thinking, Architecture

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

• Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Doe, Way

• 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

  Art, World, Arena

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

• The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Taken, Tools

• Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Mean, Alive

  "Jeff Koons on drawing as a means of articulating an idea". Interview with Dale Berning, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

• 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

  Art, Believe, Thinking

• 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

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

• Art helped give me confidence.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Giving, Give Me

• Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Self, Sense Of Self

• 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.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Thinking, Views

• For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. Thats where its found. Its found within you.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Acceptance, Self

• As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Artist, Dialogue

• 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

  Art, Feelings, Connections

  "60 SECONDS: Jeff Koons". Interview with Graeme Green, metro.co.uk. July 18, 2017.

• I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Motivation, Believe

• 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.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Simple, People

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

• 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

  Art, Powerful, Firsts

  "Jeff Koons's Inspirations". Interview with Pharrell Williams, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 10, 2011.

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

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Different, More Time

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

• I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Children, Opportunity

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

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Independent

• 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

  Art, School, Fundraising

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