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I'm interested in power.
Art helped give me confidence.
I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
I want my work to be accessible to people.
My favorite activity is to be with my family.
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !
My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.
I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.
It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.
Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.
My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.
I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
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 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 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.
Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
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'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.
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.
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
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 would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.
I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.