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

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Source : "Jeffrey Deitch’s Party House" by Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. April 20, 2012.

Jeffrey Deitch

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Support Quotes

“Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.”
“There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.”
“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.”
“I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.”
“A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.”
“I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.”

Source : "Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain? She needs to let it go" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2014.
“It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.”
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

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