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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.

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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It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.
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Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.
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I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
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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.
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People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.
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I'm interested in power.
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I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
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Art helped give me confidence.
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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.
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.
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I think about my work every minute of the day.
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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
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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.
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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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I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
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The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.
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I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.
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I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
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