Jeff Koons Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.”

“I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.”

“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.”

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

“I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.”

“I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.”

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

“I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.”

“I'm interested in power.”

“I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.”