Art Quote by Jeffrey Deitch

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso…

— Tom Peters

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the…

— Eugene Delacroix

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

— Franz Kafka

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically,…

— Devendra Banhart

We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals…

— Martin Filler

Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.

— Roman Genn

“The reason for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegories should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness in the…

— Max Raphael

There are certain figures in the arts who, although minor in accomplishment and equivocal in their aesthetic influence, are so completely representative of the…

— Anonymous

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin

If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which…

— John F. Kennedy

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

— Roy Lichtenstein