134 Quotes by Jeff Koons

I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

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

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

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

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

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!

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.

I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so that they feel open participation.