Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Koons

It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

Jeff Koons

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons

Art helped give me confidence.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

Jeff Koons

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons

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

Jeff Koons

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.

Jeff Koons

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Jeff Koons

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.

Jim Gaffigan

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

Jim Beaver

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

Jill Bennett

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.

Jesse L. Martin

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity.

Jesse Jackson

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

Jennifer Nettles

Art is not disposable.

Jennifer Lee

Headline writing is an art form.

Jennifer Lopez

When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you. And so, with all of that time, maturity and realizations, I'm in a much better place to be the best that I've ever been and to continue growing as a person and as an artist.

Jeffrey Steingarten

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

Jeff Fisher

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.