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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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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.
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I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.
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From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
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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.
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Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.
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What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
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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.
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Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.
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