Koons Manassas Quotes

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state. ~ Jeff Koons

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers). ~ Jerry Saltz

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over. ~ Jeff Koons

I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years ... ~ 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

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work. ~ 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

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. ~ Jeff Koons

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

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

Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You'll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive. ~ Peter Golenbock

My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest. ~ Jeff Koons

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany. ~ Jeff Koons

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility. ~ Jeff Koons

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is ... not about economics at all. ~ Jeff Koons

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro! ~ Russell Tovey

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting. ~ Jeff Koons

I think about my work every minute of the day. ~ Jeff Koons

I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it. ~ Jeff Koons

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. ~ Jeff Koons

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car. ~ Jeff Koons

I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people. ~ Jeff Koons

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. ~ 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

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me ! ~ Jeff Koons

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive! ~ Jeff Koons

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state. ~ Jeff Koons

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down. ~ Jeff Koons

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

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier. ~ Peter Doig

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

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting. ~ Jeff Koons

Amanda Cardinale, Abby Koons, Emily Sweet, and Sharon Krassney also deserve my thanks. I appreciate all that you do. The Cyrus family deserves my thanks not only for welcoming me into their home, but for all they've done with the film. And a special thanks goes to ~ Nicholas Sparks