Jeffrey Deitch Quotes

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Icons, People, Community

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• I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Fun, Believe

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• After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Impact, Graffiti

  "Jeffrey Deitch" by Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Years, Hip Hop, Surfing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Graffiti, Gone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Self, Trying

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• When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Skateboarding, Punk, Subculture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, People, Support

  "Jeffrey Deitch’s Party House" by Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Great American, American Life

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Mother, Art, Kids

  Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Airplane, Kids, Drawing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Interesting, Skateboarding, Graffiti

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Running, Terrible, Worst

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Judging, Skating, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Roots, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Brazil, England, Fascinating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

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  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter how many companies are putting millions and millions of dollars into marketing it, it's always going to be some Mexican kid on a corner in Echo Park that changes the rules of the game.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Kids, Echoes, Games

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Skating, Needs, Proof

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Impact, Museums, Directors

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• Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Warhol, Pops

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• Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Fund

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