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" As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. "
Jeff Koons
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" 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. "
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" I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. "
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" I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people. "
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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. "
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" I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability. "
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" There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive! "
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" I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. "
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" If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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You
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" I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery. "
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" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "
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" Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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