Jeff Koons Quotes

• Art helped give me confidence.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• I’m always working. If I’m not in my studio I become quite nervous.

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• 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.

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

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• When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

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• 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.

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• I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Birth:	21st January, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist

About

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects-such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. He earned a BA degree from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore in 1976. He studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After college, he moved to New York in 1977 and worked at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art while establishing himself as an artist.

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