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
drawing tree missing
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.
art school fundraising
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.
money financial protect
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.
spiritual moving civilization
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.
thinking film disney-film
I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
people judgment possibility
When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
art giving give-me
Art helped give me confidence.
art motivation believe
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
spiritual two details
I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.
spiritual essence doe
A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.
art powerful firsts
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
art believe philosophical
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.
art thinking profession
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
needs stay-focused workers
It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.