Quotes from Jeff Koons

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

I want my work to be accessible to people.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.

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.

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.

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

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

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

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

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

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

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.