Jeffrey Deitch Quotes

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• Elizabeth Taylor is one of the great cultural icons. She is a part of our history and should be celebrated.… This presentation is very special…
• 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…
• After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
• Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
• Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.
• Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
• 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…
• Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.
• Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.
• From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
• I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.
• Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
• Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
• There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
• What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
• Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match…
• I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something…
• 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…
• 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…
• Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother,…

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