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
art bigger dad future realize son thinking trying
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
art thinking architecture
I think about my work every minute of the day.
mean emotional thinking
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.
optimistic thinking interesting
I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.
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.
thinking film disney-film
I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
art thinking profession
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
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.
thinking pigs criticism
I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.
art thinking views
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.
available city money next
I've also told Greenacres that I'll have other money available for the city next year,
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.
best cities dealing
I think it would be great, ... Greenacres is one of the best cities in dealing with kids.
broken concerned ground ready water
We haven't even broken ground yet, and we're ready to sell, ... I'm concerned about the water resources.