Jeff Koons Quotes

Art helped give me confidence.

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.

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

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.

I’m always working. If I’m not in my studio I become quite nervous.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times… that he can look and see my dad’s thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

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

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

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.