Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons
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
Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

Jeff Koons
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
Jeff Koons

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons
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
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
Jeff Koons

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.