Jeff Koons — "I believe that art is a way to connect with the divine."
I believe that art is a way to connect with the divine.
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"I always try to make work that is optimistic and that is about hope."
"I want my work to be a balance between the ideal and the real."
"I want to create work that is generous and that gives to others."
"I want to communicate to people that they should feel good about themselves and that they should feel empowered."
"I'm interested in the idea of the universal, and how art can speak to everyone."
About Jeff Koons (born 1955)
American contemporary artist whose Balloon Dog and Rabbit sculptures hold record sale prices for living artists; defines high-end commodified Pop. Closely associated with Damien Hirst (YBA-generation peer with similar production-line studio model) and Takashi Murakami (Superflat parallel from Japan). For an intellectual contrast, see Marina Abramović, Serbian-American performance artist — Abramović's body-on-the-line endurance work (The Artist Is Present, 2010) is the precise opposite of Koons's outsourced-fabrication, surface-shine commodification. Abramović's unmediated authorship vs Koons's factory production are the two cleanest poles of late-20th-century 'what is the artist for?' debate.