“No one straddled the cosmic divide between innocence and cunning, hilarity and insidiousness, as effectively as Koons. In those halcyon years, as soon as I saw a work of his, weak or strong, it embedded itself like a burr in my imagination, then grew like a pearl into something complex and lustrous…

Koons is always trying to get objects to step outside of time and exist in this everlasting never-never land…

He wants his sculpture — which I think has been wrongly interpreted as cynical — to exist in a virginal, ethereal state of suspended animation, a place where the pure stays pure and the transitory lasts forever.” — Jerry Saltz