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title: "1 Bourgeois Values Quotes By Liam Gillick"
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> [People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/people-think-that-the-art-market-is-about-opportunists-and-hedge-fund/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

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## More by Liam Gillick

> [The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything, look after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/the-bourgeoisie-are-the-only-people-who-want-to-help-me-the/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> ["Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/contemporary-art-for-me-is-a-kind-of-historical-term-that-describes/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/i-remain-interested-in-the-potential-of-art-except-i-ve-always-been/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/people-think-that-the-art-market-is-about-opportunists-and-hedge-fund/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/i-m-operating-in-the-gap-between-the-trajectory-of-modernity-and-the/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/no-one-born-in-the-1950s-took-much-interest-in-my-generation-and-all/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/i-think-when-people-struggle-with-the-problem-of-trying-to-understand/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/what-people-in-the-u-s-have-to-understand-is-that-there-is-sometimes/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [The U.S. has always been a contradiction. It's always been a deeply protectionist, institutional place, where you're not allowed to smoke, and you're not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/the-u-s-has-always-been-a-contradiction-it-s-always-been-a-deeply/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/as-an-artist-it-s-been-clear-that-the-price-of-art-has-nothing-to-do/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/lying-on-top-of-a-building-the-clouds-looked-no-nearer-than-when-i/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

> [The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all. There's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liam-gillick/the-biggest-problem-for-my-generation-is-that-people-who-were-born/)

[Liam Gillick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liam-gillick/)

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