I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

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 helped give me confidence.