Jeff Koons Quotes

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.

One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing that you can do things and that you should want to do things. And people encouraging you to try to do things.

I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

Never cut loose from your longings.

May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.

But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level.

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.