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

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

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

- 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

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

"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sur…

- 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

I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of fem…

- Liam Gillick