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“I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.”
Jeff Koons (B. 1955)
Jim Beam – J.B. Turner Train
stainless steel and bourbon
11 x 114 x 6½ in. (27.9 x 289.6 x 16.5 cm.)
Executed in 1986. This work is the artist’s proof from an edition of three plus one artist’s proof.
Price realised
USD 33,765,000
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“The word LOVE got to be the way it is because I have a kind of a passion about symmetry and the dividing of things into equal parts. The word LOVE is that way because those four letters best fit a square if the square is squared by that particular arrangement. And it was really that sort of a necessity for a very compact form that I came upon that arrangement…With the red, blue and green paintings the interaction in the eye is of such a nature that with the slightest change of light the fields automatically interchange, the positive becomes negative and vice versa, with almost a violent effect in the eye.”
LOVE, 1966 by Robert Indiana
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Art is what you can get away with.
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“For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it’s perfect. You don’t have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That’s where it’s found. It’s found within you.”–Jeff Koons/Rabit