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