Jeff Koons Quotes

Craft is everything.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

I am a maker of useful things.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Art is all in the details.