37 Quotes by 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.

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

Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

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.

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.

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

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.

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