134 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.

I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.