Jeff Koons Thinking Quotations

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

I think about my work every minute of the day.