Jeffrey Koons Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers). — Jerry Saltz

The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would not have listened to me and, if he had, would not have understood what I said. He was like someone whom I had known once, but he was no part of me. — Sadegh Hedayat

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing. — Brene Brown

He didn't necessarily think that it was okay, but when a psychiatrist says 'okay', it just means 'I understand what you're saying. — Francois Lelord

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas

I abhor running real risks, but it's not because I'm afraid of feeling too intensely. It's because they break my perfect focus on my sensations, and this disturbs and depersonalizes me.

I never go where there's risk. I fear the tedium of dangers. — Fernando Pessoa

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?' — Neal Boortz

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

But all the if onlys in the world could not change the events of that day, and he had accepted that long ago. — Janet Lee Barton

Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable. — Gary L. Francione

My mother is a wonderful, eccentric lady who has no concept whatever of interior monologue. We'll be driving along in the car and she'll suddenly say, 'Ants don't like cucumbers, you know. And roaches don't like cinnamon. Do you want some cheese, Michael? Rembrandt was the Lord of the day.'
-Mike Myers — Mitchell Symons

That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself to murder and cannibalism. — Ransom Riggs

The serenity and the transcendence of self that you found are to me exemplary. You showed that it is not necessary to be unhappy, even while one is clear-eyed and undeluded about how terrible everything is. Somewhere you said that a writer - delicately you added: all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. (You were speaking of your blindness.) — Susan Sontag

My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their antiques. We call them "eclectic" now. But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more. — Jason Wu