37 Quotes by Jeffrey Deitch

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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