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.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . .

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

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.