Liam Gillick

The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything,…

— Liam Gillick

"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Liam Gillick

I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Liam Gillick

Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.

— Liam Gillick

The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all.…

— Liam Gillick