134 Quotes by Jeff Koons

Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

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.

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. Thats where its found. Its found within you.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.