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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! "

Jeff Koons

Feel

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Possibilities

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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. "

" 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

Courage

Freedom

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

" 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. "

" I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. "

" The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in power. "

Jeff Koons

Power

Interested

" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. "

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

" 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

Place

Responsibility

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Jeff Koons

Make

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