Jeff Koons Quotes

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

In earlier times there was one king and thousands of artists painting his palace. Now you’ve got thousands of artists painting for millions of people.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world to nothing. And since military technologies are advanced technologies, what they actually sketch today is the future of the civil realm.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.

The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.