Jeff Koons Quotes

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

It is important to consider that the horror movies should - like modern art - not have a too obvious meaning. When you watch them, it is more important what you feel than what you understand.