Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas. Jeff Koons Read Quote
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests. Jeff Koons Read Quote
I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability. Jeff Koons Read Quote
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times… that he can look and see my dad’s thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us. Jeff Koons Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea – of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual. Jeff Koons Read Quote
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. Jeff Koons Read Quote
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 Read Quote
