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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.
Jeff Koons
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Jeff Koons
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 21
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Jeffrey Lynn Koons
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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 think about my work every minute of the day.
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
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I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
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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 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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Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
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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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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
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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 spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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