“Henri Rousseau was a simple, poorly educated man with an air of innocent naïveté. The Montmartre crowd gave him the nickname “Le Douanier,” meaning “customs officer,” referring to his job as a tax collector.” — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.” — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“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… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
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… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“Duchamp thought it was for artists to decide what was and what was not a work of art. His position was that if an… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“He considered the medium to be secondary: first and foremost was the idea. Only after an artist had settled on and developed a concept… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
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… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
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,… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“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… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
