“It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.” — Will Gompertz Art 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… — Will Gompertz Art 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… — Will Gompertz Art 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… — Will Gompertz Art 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… — Will Gompertz Painting Copy Share Image
I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas. — Will Gompertz Beauty 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… — Will Gompertz Art 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… — Will Gompertz Art 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… — Will Gompertz People 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… — Will Gompertz Accepted 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… — Will Gompertz Art Copy Share Image
“ambitious provincial towns and tourist-oriented countries wanting to “do a Bilbao”—that is, to transform their reputations and raise their profile by commissioning… — Will Gompertz Art Copy Share Image
“Art is always to an extent about trying to create order out of chaos.” — Will Gompertz Art Copy Share Image
“Henri Rousseau was a simple, poorly educated man with an air of innocent naïveté. The Montmartre crowd gave him the nickname “Le… — Will Gompertz Educated man Copy Share Image
“Modernism’s constant quest to find a single, all-encompassing solution to humanity’s problems was considered to be silly, naive and delusional by the… — Will Gompertz Adventure Copy Share Image
