Jeffrey Deitch Quotes

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

In the art world, Monet means money.

I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

I've never been what they call a 'pure gallerist.' I find that somewhat pretentious, honestly - I'm an art dealer. I like to show great artists of our time, but I also like dealing. And I think they reinforce each other.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We've never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

I love to collect modern art.