I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.
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.
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.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
Tyranny seldom announces itself. . . In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
But that would put me on a path that would make me totally divergent from who I am. I don't have to go through the heartache many other people go through, of figuring out what makes them "wealthy. " I know what brings me joy.
I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.
On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.