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I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

Jeff Koons

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Jeff Koons
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 21
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Jeffrey Koons
Jeffrey Lynn Koons
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I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
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I don't think irony is about judgment I think irony is something like, Oh, that's interesting, because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.
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I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
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I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.
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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
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I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.
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I think about my work every minute of the day.
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As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
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I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.
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