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
great interact loved people sell time
From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people.
art change enriches involved life parameters people possibilities touch
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
art simple people
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.
appreciate people looks
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
people judgment possibility
When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
people want
I want my work to be accessible to people,
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.
health support-systems people
My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.
business media people
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.
art jobs people
The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and it’s not about the image; it’s about the viewer. That's where the art happens.
almost bringing finished model work
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.
build roads trying
This thing got jammed down our throats, ... To me it just didn't make any sense. Even to this day, we're trying to think about how we're going to build roads out there.
resolve waited
We waited too long to resolve this, ... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down.
art certain conscious strives takes viewer work
I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.