Patti Smith, interviewed by Adrian Dannatt for The Art Newspaper
TAN: But he is trying to be genuinely populist.
PS: Look, let the populace be “populist”. To have to try to be “populist” is pathetic, that is not what we should be trying to do with art. I find Koons’s work especially vile, to go into Versailles and have to look at his silliness all through that magnificent building.
