“I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I ...” — Jeff Koons Quote

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.