Jeff Koons Quotes

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage.

I can concentrate on my art.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

I like making art.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.