Jeff Koons Quotes

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Jeff Koons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 21, 1955

Topics

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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

John C. Hawkes

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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

John Dryden

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If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

Andrea Bocelli

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My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

John Legend

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We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

Robert Lanza

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I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

Max Beckmann

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I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

Amanda Seyfried

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I try to do other characters that are different from Monk, obviously, because I'd like to be remembered for more than just that.

Tony Shalhoub

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The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

Robbie Williams

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In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.

Russell Smith

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Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

Mike Pence

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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Monica Edwards

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