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.
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"Art is about feeling good about yourself. It's about feeling empowered."
"I want to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork."
"I want my work to contribute to a more positive world."
"I believe that art is a way to find meaning in life and to make sense of the world."
"I'm interested in the idea of the transformation, and how art can facilitate it."
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.
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