Jeffrey Deitch Quotes

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.