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Checkout quotes by Jeff Koons on Work

• ‟ I think about my work every minute of the day.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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

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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.

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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 went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.

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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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