Liam Gillick Quotes

• 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.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Struggle, Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

  Liam Gillick

  Thinking, People, Design

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

  Liam Gillick

  Lying, Clouds, Building

  "Discover Vancouver's bear essentials" by Nigel Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. July 7, 2012.

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• 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.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Feminist, Authority

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• 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 reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take.

  Liam Gillick

  Europe, Somewhere Else, America

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• 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

  Art, Ideas, Clear

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• "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.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Wall, Thinking

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• 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.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 not allowed to do this, and you're not allowed to do that. And then, on the other hand, it's completely libertarian in a way. So it's got this weird mixture of being incredibly authoritarian and incredibly open at the same time.

  Liam Gillick

  Hands, Mixtures, Libertarian

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• 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't ask for a discount. They want to look after you.

  Liam Gillick

  People, Bourgeoisie, Looks

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• 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 why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against us, they hated us and fought for things, and yet they had no interest in our work.

  Liam Gillick

  Years, People, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.

  Liam Gillick

  Talking, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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