I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
Jeff KoonsI 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.
Jeff KoonsEvery day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
Jeff KoonsThe entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.
Jeff Koons