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Quote by Jeff Koons

“My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.”

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Jeff Koons, born on January 21, 1955, is a highly influential contemporary artist. Known for his large-scale stainless steel sculptures and installations, his work often explores consumer culture, mass media, and the boundaries between art and life. more

“I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.”

“But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.”

Thinking Stills Answers Just Live

Author:Damien Hirst

“Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Hard Thinking About You

Book:On the Way to Work

Source: On the Way to Work

Quote by Jeff Koons

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