Top 30 Jeffrey Deitch Quotes
#1. We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
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#2. From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
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#3. Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.
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#4. Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
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#5. There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
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#6. I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.
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#7. When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.
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#8. When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith.
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#10. We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.
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#11. Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, 'I want to be an artist' - is a good thing.
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#12. Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.
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#13. I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.
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#14. Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
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#15. In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.
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#16. After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
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#17. Elizabeth Taylor is one of the great cultural icons. She is a part of our history and should be celebrated. ... This presentation is very special for the community, there are so many people who want to understand this side of Elizabeth Taylor.
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#18. Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.
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#19. Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.
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#20. Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
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#21. Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.
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#22. Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.
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#23. Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
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#24. One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
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#25. I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.
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#26. Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.
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#27. What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
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#29. I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.
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#30. When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.
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