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Top 30 Jeffrey Deitch Quotes (2025 Update)

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Art dealing is when you’re doing it as a business.”

1. “Art dealing is when you’re doing it as a business.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.”

4. “I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.”

5. “After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Graffiti doesn’t exist unless someone got a photo, because it’s gone immediately.”

7. “Graffiti doesn’t exist unless someone got a photo, because it’s gone immediately.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.”

8. “Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “We’re in a post-conceptual era where it’s really the artist’s idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.”

9. “We’re in a post-conceptual era where it’s really the artist’s idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “From 1940 to the present, the art world – and particularly Los Angeles – has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.”

11. “From 1940 to the present, the art world – and particularly Los Angeles – has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.”

12. “Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “I was a fan of Andy’s since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.”

14. “I was a fan of Andy’s since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.”

15. “When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.”

16. “Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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 that a friend owns.”

17. “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 that a friend owns.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “What I hope is I’ll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction – an art dealer running a museum.”

18. “What I hope is I’ll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction – an art dealer running a museum.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what’s happening within this box of a ramp.”

19. “Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what’s happening within this box of a ramp.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.”

21. “Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular – popular culture.”

22. “We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular – popular culture.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.”

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

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.”

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

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.”

26. “Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.”

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

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.”

29. “When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.”

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Jeffrey Deitch Quote: “I didn’t know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.”

30. “I didn’t know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.”

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