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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. - Jeff Koons
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I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being. - Jeff Koons
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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. - Jeff Koons
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Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas. - Jeff Koons
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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. - Jeff Koons
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I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility. - Jeff Koons
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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
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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. - Jeff Koons
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The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled. - Jeff Koons
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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. - Jeff Koons
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I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great. - Jeff Koons
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I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself. - Jeff Koons
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For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you. - Jeff Koons
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Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self. - Jeff Koons
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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
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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. - Jeff Koons
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I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting. - Jeff Koons
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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. - Jeff Koons
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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them. - Jeff Koons
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Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself. - Jeff Koons
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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. - Jeff Koons
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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. - Jeff Koons
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I think about my work every minute of the day. - Jeff Koons
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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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