“I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindArtIdeasRealSpaceHappenedStreetsMovementPaintingPureHappeningsTrainCuriousSpontaneousReflectingAcademyAngstCombustionFuturistSpontaneous Combustion Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith.” PeopleWorldArtArtistInfluenceMassTrainHeavyArt World Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.” WorldArtUseCultureTermForgetRootsPopsPopular CultureArt WorldPop Art Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“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.” ArtChallengesLevelsComfortPerceptionContemporaryLandscapeShakesBest Art Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.” ArtCultureMovementImpactPopsGraffitiPop Art Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.” ArtFilmFashionReceptiveInteractingFusionArt Films Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“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.” ArtUseFormArtistWalkingMediumsWorks Of Art Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.” WorldArtTransformationLos AngelesItalianRenaissanceArt WorldItalian Renaissance Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.” BelieveArtFunI BelieveSeriousConceptsSatisfyingEngagingContradictoryExhibitions Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.” PeopleHas BeensArtSupportAgendas Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.” ArtFiguresFlowConstantHistoricalReputationFluxEbb And Flow Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.” ArtRunningIndividualMuseumsAbstractionDealer Author: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 on a television show. It never would have happened.” WorldTryingArtSelfShowsArtistLinesHappenedTelevisionTelevision ShowsArt World Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“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.” WorldArtIdeasBecomingHappeningsArt IsAspectThings HappenExpansionArt WorldFrancoBecoming Better Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“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.” PeopleThinkingWantArtKidsMotherArtistOpportunityLevelsMassGood ThingsOklahoma Author:Jeffrey Deitch
