Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koonsis an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth21 January 1955
CityYork, PA
CountryUnited States of America
sports sports-cars car
I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.
trying enjoy audience
I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.
philosophy versailles kind
I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.
art different more-time
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
germany produce artwork
I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
my-family my-favorite activity
My favorite activity is to be with my family.
appreciate people looks
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
mean drawing long
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.
nervous always-working ifs
I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
art believe thinking
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.
I'm interested in power.
art touch-me
Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !
art technology opportunity
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.
years two done
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.