Jeffrey Deitch Quotes About Art
-
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
→ -
We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.
→ -
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
→ -
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
→ -
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.
→ -
I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.
→ -
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
→ -
Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
→ -
From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
→ -
Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
→
Related Authors
-
Aby Rosen Tycoon -
John Baldessari Artist -
Catherine Opie Artist -
Jerry Saltz Art critic -
Marina Abramovic Artist -
Eli Broad Business person -
-
Barbara Kruger Artist -
Fisher Stevens Actor -
Jean-Michel Basquiat Artist -
Andre Balazs Property developer -
Kehinde Wiley Painter -
Keith Haring Visual Artist -
Shepard Fairey Contemporary artist -
Barry McGee Painter -
Aaron Rose Film director -
Larry Gagosian Art dealer -
Ondi Timoner Film director -
-
Mariko Mori Photographer