“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
“Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.” PeopleThinkingWritingPersonsDifferentCan DoCreativeStreetsGrewGrew UpDrawsAvenuesCreative PeopleSkatingSkater Author: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 many years it was very geographic.” YearsTogetherCultureStreetsHip HopHipsHopsMassivePunkTiedSurfingGraffitiSkateboarding Author: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 nothing to match that chance encounter.” PeopleWantRunningArtistChanceCreativeStreetsEncountersCreative PeopleSohoChance Encounters Author:Jeffrey Deitch
