«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE AND IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»- ANDY WARHOL

«In a lecture delivered at the 92nd Street Y community centre in New York last month, Koons professed his affinity for Courbet, comparing works from his “Made in Heaven” series—which show him having sex with his former wife, the Hungarian-born Ilona Staller, a former porn star and then MP in Italy—with Courbet’s l’Origine du Monde (1866) in the Musée d’Orsay. Koons told the audience that while his own work is based on balloon rabbits, porcelain figurines and flower puppies, he collects older art, including a Dalí gouache that he bought as a memento of his visit to the Catalan artist at New York’s St Regis hotel in the early 1970s.»

-The Art Newspaper
28/2/2008