Jeff Koons

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

I'm interested in power.