“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 visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part in this cultural exercise but don't have the required stuff, they don't have the ideas or the production.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantTryingArtIdeasProblemStuffStruggleExerciseProductionsVisionariesArt WorldOpportunist Author: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 feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.” ArtTheoryAuthorityFeministQuestioningModernismFeminist Theory Author: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 sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.” ThinkingYearsKindArtDoneTermWallArt IsHistoricalCome UpContemporaryNot SureBerlinContemporary ArtBerlin Wall Author: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 configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.” PeopleThinkingArtIdeasValuesHappenedAcceptanceBrokenHorribleContemporaryManagersFundBourgeoisBourgeoisieContemporary ArtOpportunistConfigurationHedge Fund Author: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.” ArtIdeasArtistClearTolerate Author:Liam Gillick
