Educated man Quote by Will Gompertz

“It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.”

— Will Gompertz

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

“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

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

“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

Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.

— Will Gompertz

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.

— 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…

— Will Gompertz

“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

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

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

“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