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It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.

~Jeff Koons

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I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

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There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

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If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

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If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

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If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

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I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

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I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 21st, 1955

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