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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.

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 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'm interested in power.
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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 believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
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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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I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
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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 like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
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I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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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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I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
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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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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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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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Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.
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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.
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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 always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
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