Jeff Koons — "I'm interested in the idea of perfection. I think that art should strive for per…"
I'm interested in the idea of perfection. I think that art should strive for perfection.
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"Art is about embracing our vulnerabilities."
"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 always say that I'm a machine, that I'm a vessel, that I'm a conduit."
"I want to communicate to people that they should feel good about themselves and that they should feel empowered."
"I believe that art is a way to celebrate life and to appreciate its beauty."
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.