37 Quotes by Jeffrey Deitch

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

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

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.