"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
"Jeff Koons on the Roof," (2008)
"Jeff Koons on the Roof," 2008
Installation view, "Jeff Koons on the Roof," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 22-October 26, 2008
Left: Sacred Heart (Red/Gold), 1994-2007
High-chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 140 1/2 x 86 x 47 3/5 inches
Right: Coloring Book, 1997-2005
High-chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 222 x 131 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches
© Jeff Koons
Courtesy the artist
Installation view, "Jeff Koons on the Roof," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 22-October 26, 2008
Left: Sacred Heart (Red/Gold), 1994-2007
High-chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 140 1/2 x 86 x 47 3/5 inches
Right: Coloring Book, 1997-2005
High-chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 222 x 131 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches
© Jeff Koons
Courtesy the artist
"When I was young I really didn’t have a base in art history. My first day in art school, we went to the museum and at that moment I realized how naïve I was. I didn’t know who Braque was. I didn’t know Manet. I knew nobody. I knew Dali, Warhol, and probably Rauschenberg, and Michelangelo, but I had no sense of art history. I survived that day and I think that’s one of the reasons I’m here now."
-Jeff Koons
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