A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since... →
Jeff Koons
I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation... →
I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of... →
There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction.... →
When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric... →
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing... →
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean Koontz
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically... →
When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.