Jeff Koons — "I think that art can be a very powerful way to express yourself."
I think that art can be a very powerful way to express yourself.
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"I'm not interested in being an artist who makes things that are difficult to understand."
"I always try to make work that is visually striking and that grabs people's attention."
"I think that art is about desire. It's about what we want."
"I'm interested in the idea of the popular. I think that art can be popular."
"I'm interested in the idea of the sublime, of something that is so beautiful that it's almost overwhelming."
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.