Artist Quotes by Jeffrey Deitch

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity…

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what…

— Jeffrey Deitch

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in…

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a…

— Jeffrey Deitch

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say…

— Jeffrey Deitch

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…

— Jeffrey Deitch

When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were…

— Jeffrey Deitch

I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an…

— Jeffrey Deitch

I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's…

— Jeffrey Deitch

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get…

— Jeffrey Deitch