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
normal jelly natural
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.
people want
I want my work to be accessible to people,
creating trying use
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.
thinking artist like-you
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
art children opportunity
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.
thinking pigs criticism
I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.
artist trying levels
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
art self sense-of-self
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
art artist dialogue
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
ideas people collaboration
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.
art world arena
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.
responsibility
I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
dog class luxury
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
art independent
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.