Jeff Koons Quotes

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

My name has zero value.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

Me personally, I don't think I'm even hot enough to be getting dissed.

I don't want a 'good' image.

When I describe myself as fat to people, whether it's a driver, anywhere around the world, or a friend, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's just because I'm fat,' people are like, 'Don't say that about yourself.'

To me, somebody can say what they want about me all day, whether it's my game or my personality or who I am as a human being.

People can think what they want about me.

I don't really care if people don't like me. The only thing I care about is if they are reading my website.

How low am I, thou painted maypole?

I thank God that I became addicted to pain pills, because the process of going through rehab taught me more about myself than I had ever known. I wish I would have learned what I learned about myself I learned in rehab, going through life. You know, we're all raised to be loved. We care about what other people think of us, and sometimes to our detriment we let feedback and the opinions of others shape our own self-image. I was guilty of that, too. But in my professional life, I had mastered it. I didn't care what the critics said.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.