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… — 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 a world of visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part… — 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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street. — Liam Gillick Copy Share
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
