Jeff Koons — "Art should be something that makes you feel good."
Art should be something that makes you feel good.
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"I believe that art is a way to connect with the divine."
"I'm interested in the idea of the new, and how art can always be fresh."
"Art is about communication. It's about being able to share with people the excitement of what it is to be a human being and to be alive."
"I'm not interested in making things that are going to be in a museum for the next 500 years. I'm interested in making things that are going to be in people's homes and that people are going to enjoy."
"I want to create art that is so pure that it can touch the soul."
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.