Liam Gillick Quotes

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

Liam Gillick

#2. 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

#3. Gary looked back at Lartin and sized him up. Then he did that thing that I swear only unicorns can do. His blue eyes got impossibly big. His eyelashes lengthened as he fluttered them at Lartin. His mane was luminous in the darkened cave, and he purred, Well aren't you precious.

T.J. Klune

#4. 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

#5. The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

Mary McCarthy

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

Ernie Isley

#9. Morning shower cleans my body, but my mouth gets the first cleansing. Red silk tie accentuates a navy blue suit. Ready for a meeting at seven with 'human sharks'. Red tie? Forget it, a shark knows a guppy in fancy clothes.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

#10. Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated ...

Mary Kay Ash

#12. It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

James Mill

#13. "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

#14. Game: The end.
Addiction: It begins.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#15. I'm not perfect, I'm me and that's even better

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#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.

Carolyn Meinel

#20. The world's twenty-seven richest people own more wealth than the poorest five billion, and people accept that as normal.

David Mitchell