Jeff Koons Quotes

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

I believe in music because it has the power of change.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.