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.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

Every 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.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

Art helped give me confidence.

I 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.

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