Jeff Koons Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.”

“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.”