Latest Jeffrey Deitch Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Graffiti, Gone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

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

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Skateboarding, Punk, Subculture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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