Top 51 Quotes by Jeff Koons

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.

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.

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

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

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

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

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

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 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.