Jeffrey Deitch Quotes

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.

Jeffrey Deitch

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• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Flowers
  • Hundred
  • Bloom

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Goal
  • Enemy
  • U.S.

• I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Feel
  • Inspiration

• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Together
  • Cardio
  • Kickboxing

• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Lyrics
  • Solos

• Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Together
  • Song

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Sex

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• What I did was go into the studio and make music that I love. Make music that when you hear it, it feels good. Whether it was urban inspired, dance inspired, HipHop inspired or it just feels good period.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Feels
  • Inspired
  • Periods

• If I couldn't have discipline, if I sit up eatin' fried chicken in bed at night, I'd just as soon be dead. I take care of myself.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Up
  • Night
  • Discipline

• You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.

  

  Cotton Mather
  • Passionate
  • Studies
  • Recreation

• 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.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Work
  • Art
  • Walking