Jeffrey Deitch

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on…

— 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

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— 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

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

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes…

— 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

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a…

— Jeffrey Deitch

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing…

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— Jeffrey Deitch

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

— 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

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

— 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

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

— 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

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

— 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