Best quotes by Jeffrey Deitch on Art

Checkout quotes by Jeffrey Deitch on Art

• ‟ 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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• ‟ Andy Warhol defined Pop 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.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

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

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

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

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