Zitat des Tages von Jeff Koons:
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.
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.
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.
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
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.
Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.
I think about my work every minute of the day.
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
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.
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 try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
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.
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.
I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
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.
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.
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.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
Art helped give me confidence.
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.
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 was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
