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.

Jeff Koons

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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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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 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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Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over. by Jeff Koons

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

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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.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

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The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.

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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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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 know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around... by Jeff Koons

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

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Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend m... by Jeff Koons

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

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I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.

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Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

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Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.

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I think about my work every minute of the day. by Jeff Koons

I think about my work every minute of the day.

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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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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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