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. Jeff Koons More Quotes by Jeff Koons More Quotes From Jeff Koons I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . . Jeff Koons believe sex reality 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. Jeff Koons simple people art I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms. Jeff Koons optimistic interesting thinking 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. Jeff Koons emotional mean thinking 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. Jeff Koons audience enjoy trying I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. Jeff Koons try luxury work people 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. Jeff Koons feeling place you space 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 yourself you imperfection perfection 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. Jeff Koons you drawing intellectual way I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer. Jeff Koons you work believe art I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life. Jeff Koons me freedom life art Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas. Jeff Koons through you feelings ideas Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself. Jeff Koons yourself go you trust Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art. Jeff Koons you change life art I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability. Jeff Koons make try steel work I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy. Jeff Koons think you father people
