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, it's my a…

- Liam Gillick

The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything, look after it, and don'…

- Liam Gillick

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

- Liam Gillick

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 vis…

- 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 an idea of what the market will tolerate.

- 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 was a new c…

- Liam Gillick

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 massive gap. I don't know …

- 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 you're…

- 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 in the postwar reconfiguratio…

- Liam Gillick