Jeff Koons
Related HENRI MATISSE I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stic... CECIL RHODES As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what any... DAMON LINDELOF There was no admission of guilt in making a gesture of that kind. That was a gesture on my behalf be... COLIN MONTGOMERIE DAVID GEFFEN If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that ide... CRAIG MAPP PABLO PICASSO PHYLLIS BOTTOME An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you MORRIS BERMAN ROGER ROSENBLATT The Inhumans, just as an idea - the idea that you were an ordinary horseman until you were exposed t... CHARLES SOULE ROGER VON OECH If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene and enjoy... CRAIG MAPP An Act of Dissent is simply a way of saying, 'No, I do not accept this and, as my silence may be con... MARK THOMAS It would be a gesture, but somebody needs to make a gesture. DONALD GREGG ERALDO BANOVAC BARRY GIBB CHARLES HAZLEWOOD HENRI MATISSE C. JOYBELL C. ARTHUR MILLER You have to send the signal that this is intolerable and counterproductive to Iranian international ... ROSEMARY HOLLIS God is the giver of ideas. When He gives you an idea, it is not just about you. There is an audience... KIM BOOHER CRAIG GROESCHEL JAMES D. WATSON HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If you have an idea, follow it through regardless of your fear’s KISHAN S CHAUHAN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN BONO The gesture Namaste represents the belief that there is a Divine spark within each of us that is loc... AADIL PALKHIVALA We have learned the hard way that making them float on water is not a good idea. HALEY BARBOUR RICK RIORDAN YO-YO MA GEORGE BERNARD SHAW WAYNE DYER Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical id... HELMUT JAHN This is not a hollow gesture. This is an unprecedented release of industry material. SCOTT WILLIAMS MILAN KUNDERA JOHN MORGRIDGE DEYTH BANGER Having an idea is like seeing things through binox...make sure the person you are sharing it to has ... IDDI LUKOO What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and... LAURA ZISKIN It is a positive move. It is always a much better idea to have a public broadcaster that is less dep... WILLIAM BIRD A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude SIDONIE GABRIELLE SARAH BERNHARDT ROLAND BARTHES The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having i... GENE HOFFMAN I think, sometimes with fans, what a lot of studios miss is it's just the gesture: it's the ... DAVE FILONI When we make an extraordinary gesture, it's always documented. JULIE KING The Central African Republic is free to close its border, but we regard the decision only as a gestu... JAMAL MOHAMED IBRAHIM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA You usually have an idea of when people are going to use certain defenses and certain formations. Bu... DAN MULLEN LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE DEYTH BANGER Life is an audition. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL JULIE KAGAWA MARK TWAIN MAXWELL MALTZ SUSAN GLASPELL Every believer should be an apostle since each believer is sent by the Lord Jesus to go and bear fru... HENRY HON HENRY FORD Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your min... JOHN ELIOT, PH.D. An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can... ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea. CAMERON WINKLEVOSS EMILE GALLE SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA , RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANS, SARDA DEVI JEFF GOODELL Stravinsky said that composition is selective improvisation, meaning that the same kernel of an idea... CHRIS BRUBECK A publication depends on a great idea, not there being a market out there. You start with an idea ra... ANDREW HEISKELL DAVID GILMOUR That's something that's sometimes missing from academia, that kind of an idea of an intellectual - s... JAMES CIANCIOLA MATT STONE The contrast in their pitches is significant. Yet both of them are positioning themselves to help us... BRYAN PRICE HENRY DAVID THOREAU SWAMI VIVEKANANDA DONNIE YEN G-EAZY The idea that you are 55 and have to grin and bear it is a thing of the past. DEAN THOMAS PETER FALK ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH NAVEEN JAIN EVGENY MOROZOV Apparently this is the answer of the Palestinian Authority to our gesture of peace, ... and I must t... AVI PAZNER Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. SYED SHARUKH HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON This is an expensive way to live. You have two homes, travel expenses--even if you are making a fair... JAY LEBOW This is an unfriendly gesture by the Australian government. DJOKO SUSILO JOHN PERRY BARLOW NORMAN THOMAS EPIPHANY A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very bes... HALFORD E. LUCCOCK Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an ... BARRY C. FORBES We appreciate the fact that they have accepted coach Callahan's explanation of this gesture. We also... STEVE PEDERSON O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN HANK HANEY SATYA NADELLA MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I think that?s a lot of it. The pace that Lee plays at, it?s something that you have to live to get ... CHAD EDWARDS CONDOLEEZZA RICE An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince ... JOEL SPOLSKY
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It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you... JEFF KOONS I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop... JEFF KOONS If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the... JEFF KOONS I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I thin... JEFF KOONS I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, ... JEFF KOONS I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the inf... JEFF KOONS I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual... JEFF KOONS I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great. JEFF KOONS Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming in... JEFF KOONS I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever and that it be natural, than to ... JEFF KOONS I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based ... JEFF KOONS When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them. JEFF KOONS I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerf... JEFF KOONS I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. JEFF KOONS I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenge... JEFF KOONS Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life... JEFF KOONS I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male... JEFF KOONS I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind ... JEFF KOONS Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you ... JEFF KOONS We waited too long to resolve this, ... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down. JEFF KOONS The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II&... JEFF KOONS The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. JEFF KOONS I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspec... JEFF KOONS I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really striv... JEFF KOONS Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up... JEFF KOONS I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based gene... JEFF KOONS I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So ... JEFF KOONS I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the... JEFF KOONS Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does.... JEFF KOONS I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the neces... JEFF KOONS I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. JEFF KOONS I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the und... JEFF KOONS I think about my work every minute of the day. JEFF KOONS I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so tha... JEFF KOONS Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow... JEFF KOONS We're trying to be as accommodating as we can and minimize the pain everyone's going to feel when th... CHUCK KOONS It was pretty clear (business owners) would like it pushed back. Anything we do to expedite it to ge... CHUCK KOONS JEFF GREENFIELD JEFF SESSIONS Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those ... JEFF AMENT I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that. JEFF BECK Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a... JEFF COHEN JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF BEZOS JEFF BEZOS JEFF BEZOS JEFF BEZOS JEFF BEZOS JEFF BEZOS I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people&#... JEFF KINNEY People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People ... JEFF ROSS JEFF BEZOS JEFF FOXWORTHY 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ... JEFF KINNEY JEFF BEZOS Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity&#... JEFF GRUBB JEFF GREENFIELD You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so... JEFF TWEEDY JEFF BEZOS Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cy... JEFF BRIDGES There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even ... JEFF BRIDGES JEFF ZUCKER JEFF DUNHAM When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ... JEFF KINNEY JEFF FORTENBERRY Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl... JEFF COHEN The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the gover... JEFF DUNCAN While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential... JEFF DUNCAN Monkeys can't talk, stupid! JEFF KINNEY JEFF NICHOLS JEFF ZUCKER Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they... JEFF LANDRY JEFF GREENFIELD JEFF GOODELL JEFF BUCKLEY JEFF LINDSAY JEFF GOLDBLUM JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF BUCKLEY JEFF BEZOS JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF FORTENBERRY If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whi... JEFF BECK It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt tha... JEFF FISHER JEFF LINDSAY JEFF GREENFIELD Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music indust... JEFF TWEEDY For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by t... JEFF HARDY JEFF GOODELL JEFF BUCKLEY JEFF NICHOLS Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this w... JEFF MACNELLY JEFF SESSIONS JEFF FOXWORTHY Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the... JEFF ZASLOW But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the... JEFF VANDERMEER JEFF LINDSAY JEFF DIXON JEFF GOLDBLUM JEFF VALDEZ JEFF PESIS JEFF DALY JEFF DEWAR JEFF WARNER JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF DAVIDSON JEFF TAYLOR JEFF DAVIDSON JEFF DEWAR JEFF DAVIDSON JEFF ARDER JEFF ARCH JEFF DALY JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF MELVOIN JEFF MELVOIN JEFF VALDEZ JEFF MELVOIN JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF MELVOIN When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our... JEFF BAENA There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan ... JEFF LEMIRE JEFF ZUCKER JEFF BEZOS JEFF CARLSON Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books ar... JEFF KINNEY There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPo... JEFF VANDERMEER JEFF MILLER JEFF NICHOLS JEFF SESSIONS The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, wh... JEFF DUNCAN JEFF DUNHAM I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have t... JEFF MANGUM Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this yea... JEFF BINGAMAN I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children. JEFF BRIDGES JEFF MILLER JEFF GOLDBLUM When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to over... JEFF JORDAN Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.' JEFF JORDAN I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the p... JEFF SMISEK JEFF BUCKLEY JEFF BEZOS JEFF ZUCKER JEFF BUCKLEY Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities t... JEFF GARCIA JEFF SESSIONS JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF GOODELL JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER JEFF GOLDBLUM JEFF BEZOS JEFF BUCKLEY JEFF BUCKLEY JEFF DENHAM JEFF MERKLEY JEFF BEZOS JEFF BEZOS JEFF ZUCKER JEFF BEZOS I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days. JEFF KINNEY JEFF GOODELL JEFF DUNHAM JEFF SESSIONS JEFF BEZOS JEFF BEZOS JEFF FORTENBERRY JEFF FORTENBERRY Being myself is what got me to where I am. JEFF HARDY JEFF MILLER I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't th... JEFF GORDON JEFF BEZOS JEFF NICHOLS JEFF BEZOS JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF DUNHAM I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be... JEFF KINNEY JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF FOXWORTHY JEFF BEZOS JEFF NICHOLS
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. 
You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something el... 
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. 
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice 
The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of movin... 
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discover... 
If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process of realization regardless ... 
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way... 
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea... 
Drawing is putting a line (a)round an idea. 
I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... 
It is a lie. 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understa... 
An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that... 
There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. Amer... 
A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... 
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that... 
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each... 
Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is t... 
A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individ... 
I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to... 
How to get it, I annoy you???
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w... 
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w... 
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th... 
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That i... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
The others started forward, and I gave them a sharp look. "Don't move!" I snapped, and thankfully, t... 
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride ... 
The important thing for you to remember is that it does not matter in the least how you got the idea... 
We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that the... 
An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an o... 
Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the g... 
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th... 
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can hav... 
When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to ... 
I can totally see why Ricky would be bummed about people accusing him of stealing an idea he came up... 
You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an ac... 
A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression. 
You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can... 
My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing. 
When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... 
By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaini... 
The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value syste... 
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. 
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely differen... 
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. 
One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make thi... 
It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what a... 
I respect the work Mr. Harper has done to learn French, to make a 'gesture' toward Quebec. My critic... 
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion ... 
It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't ... 
I do believe we have voter fraud in America. 
That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring. 
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital ve... 
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is... 
What's dangerous is not to evolve. 
When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civ... 
The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now. 
We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han... 
Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and ... 
What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse... 
Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidat... 
I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am... 
I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other w... 
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much. 
You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remem... 
Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if y... 
For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a ver... 
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ... 
I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a thea... 
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensiti... 
You can't do everything but you can do something! 
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. 
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. 
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. 
Two monologues do not make a dialogue. 
Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires. 
We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there alw... 
Do you remember how slowly the days passed when you were a child? An 80-mile car trip seemed endless... 
The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible. 
What are the best times to reflect on the course of your life? Whenever you are near water, such as ... 
Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get m... 
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. 
When a heart breaks
it also opens
-Jeff Arch- screenwriter. 
Two monologues do not make a dialogue. 
You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out ... 
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. 
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. 
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping? 
I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they'... 
With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homelan... 
The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory ... 
The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote thei... 
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's... 
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the m... 
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal han... 
As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful ... 
I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered. 
Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fa... 
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and cause... 
Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there... 
The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership. 
I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots. 