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, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity. — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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 massive gap. I don't know why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything, look after… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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,… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street. — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
