Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koonsis an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth21 January 1955
CityYork, PA
CountryUnited States of America
sports sports-cars car
I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.
trying enjoy audience
I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.
philosophy versailles kind
I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.
germany produce artwork
I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
my-family my-favorite activity
My favorite activity is to be with my family.
appreciate people looks
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
nervous always-working ifs
I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
I'm interested in power.
years two done
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
drawing tree missing
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.
money financial protect
Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.
spiritual moving civilization
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.
thinking film disney-film
I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
people judgment possibility
When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.