American - Artist | January 21, 1955 -
It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.
Jeff Koons
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I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
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If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
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Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.
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Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.
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I think about my work every minute of the day.
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When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.
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If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.
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Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
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I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.
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I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.
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