“I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.”
Jeff Koons“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“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's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.”
Jeff Koons“Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.”
Jeff Koons“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“I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.”
Jeff Koons“I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.”
Jeff Koons“I think about my work every minute of the day.”
Jeff Koons“When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.”
Robert Adams