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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.

Jeff Koons

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Jeff Koons
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 21
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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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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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A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.
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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 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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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
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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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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 like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
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I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
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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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Art helped give me confidence.
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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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I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
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I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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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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