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> [I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a massive international business. So, I think there's a lot of reasons why the art world as opened up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/i-don-t-think-ever-before-in-the-whole-of-human-history-has-so-much/)

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## More by Will Gompertz

> [“It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/it-s-a-urinal-it-s-not-even-the-original-the-art-is-in-the-idea-not/)

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> [I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/i-think-art-world-will-have-consolidated-i-think-it-will-slow-down-a/)

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> [“That, he thought, was the essential purpose of art—to capture the universal in the everyday, which was particular to their here and now: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/that-he-thought-was-the-essential-purpose-of-art-to-capture-the/)

[Will Gompertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-gompertz/)

> [I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a massive international…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/i-don-t-think-ever-before-in-the-whole-of-human-history-has-so-much/)

[Will Gompertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-gompertz/)

> [“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/paint-for-the-impressionists-became-a-medium-whose-material/)

[Will Gompertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-gompertz/)

> [Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/be-an-artist-don-t-say-it-do-it/)

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> [I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/i-often-look-for-beauty-in-form-and-structure-and-for-ideas/)

[Will Gompertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-gompertz/)

> [“Duchamp thought it was for artists to decide what was and what was not a work of art. His position was that if an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/duchamp-thought-it-was-for-artists-to-decide-what-was-and-what-was/)

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> [“He considered the medium to be secondary: first and foremost was the idea. Only after an artist had settled on and developed a concept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/he-considered-the-medium-to-be-secondary-first-and-foremost-was-the/)

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> [Group shows are always much harder to present to the public because there's a theme to the show. They always do less well because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/group-shows-are-always-much-harder-to-present-to-the-public-because/)

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> [We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/we-re-moving-from-a-generation-who-gave-little-thought-as-to-the/)

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> [“An artist’s job was not to give aesthetic pleasure—designers could do that; it was to step back from the world and attempt to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/an-artist-s-job-was-not-to-give-aesthetic-pleasure-designers-could-do/)

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> [“ambitious provincial towns and tourist-oriented countries wanting to “do a Bilbao”—that is, to transform their reputations and raise their profile by commissioning an eye-catching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/ambitious-provincial-towns-and-tourist-oriented-countries-wanting-to/)

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> [“Art is always to an extent about trying to create order out of chaos.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/art-is-always-to-an-extent-about-trying-to-create-order-out-of-chaos/)

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> [“Henri Rousseau was a simple, poorly educated man with an air of innocent naïveté. The Montmartre crowd gave him the nickname “Le Douanier,” meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-gompertz/henri-rousseau-was-a-simple-poorly-educated-man-with-an-air-of/)

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