May 20, 2010

Is or Can

"Childhood's important, and it's when I first came into contact with art. This happened when I was around four or five. One of the greatest pleasures I remember is looking at a cereal box. It's a kind of sexual experience at that age, because of the milk. You've been weaned off your mother, and you're eating cereal with milk, and visually you can't get tired of the box. You sit there, and you look at the front, and you look at the back. Then the next day you pull out the box again, and you're just still amazed by it; you never tire of the amazement. You know, all of life is like that or can be like that." - Jeff Koons